Queen Berengaria's Courtesy, and Other Poems By the Lady E. Stuart Wortley. In Three Vols |
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[Vesuvius! I have seen thee in thy might]
Vesuvius! I have seen thee in thy might,Forth vomiting thy threatening smoke and flame,
As with some reckless and unhallowed aim;
Crowned, like a ruined sun, with blood-red light!—
Angry—portentous—troubling the awe-struck sight—
Not centuried slumbers can e'er make thee tame:
Thou'rt still in will and purposed wrath the same.
Scowling at Time upon his arrowy flight,
How dost thou fierce and frowning seem to be,
(As though thou felt thyself banned—unforgiven)
The ruthless foe of earth, and sky, and sea,
Whence peace and beauty by thy wrath are driven,
Wasting the earth's pride—o'ershadowing blue waves free,
Heaving, as 'twere, a very hell to heaven!
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