With Shelley in Italy : being a selection of the poems and letters of Percy Bysshe Shelley which have to do with his life in Italy from 1818 to 1822 . ?•^Mid till moim/diiis /?^iii/diuini I stood lixtluilKf to till jKfdll With wliir/i the liyiotidd rooks did Itnil The suns uprise majestical. — Euganean Hills, Those famous Kur/nuedn hills, which hearAs seen from Lido thro the hurhour jnlesThe likeness of a rlumi) of peaked isles. - Julian and Maddalo, p. 40. THE YEAR 1818 As seen from Lido thro the harbour pilesThe likeness of a clump of peaked isles —And then, as if the Earth and Sea ha
With Shelley in Italy : being a selection of the poems and letters of Percy Bysshe Shelley which have to do with his life in Italy from 1818 to 1822 . ?•^Mid till moim/diiis /?^iii/diuini I stood lixtluilKf to till jKfdll With wliir/i the liyiotidd rooks did Itnil The suns uprise majestical. — Euganean Hills, Those famous Kur/nuedn hills, which hearAs seen from Lido thro the hurhour jnlesThe likeness of a rlumi) of peaked isles. - Julian and Maddalo, p. 40. THE YEAR 1818 As seen from Lido thro the harbour pilesThe likeness of a clump of peaked isles —And then, as if the Earth and Sea had beenDissolved into one lake of fire, were seenThose mountains towering as from waves of flameAround the vaporous sun, from which there cameThe inmost purple spirit of light_, and madeTheir very peaks transparent. Ere it fade,Said my companion, I will show you soonA better station — so, oer the laguneWe glided, and from that funereal barkI leaned, and saw the city, and could markHow from their many isles in evenings gleam,Its temples and its palaces did seemLike fabrics of enchantment piled to was about to speak, when — We are evenNow at the point I meant, said Maddalo,And bade the gondolieri cease to row. Look, Julian, on the west, and listen wellIf you hear not a deep and heavy looke
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