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 . untains ; — Oh,How beautiful is sunset, when the glowOf Heaven descends upon a land like Paradise of exiles, Italy !Thy mountains, seas and vineyards and the towersOf cities they encircle ! — it was oursTo stand on thee, beholding it; and where we had dismounted, the Counts menWere waiting for us with the gondola. —As those who pause on some delightful wayTho bent on pleasant pilgrimage, we stoodLooking upon the evening, and
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 . untains ; — Oh,How beautiful is sunset, when the glowOf Heaven descends upon a land like Paradise of exiles, Italy !Thy mountains, seas and vineyards and the towersOf cities they encircle ! — it was oursTo stand on thee, beholding it; and where we had dismounted, the Counts menWere waiting for us with the gondola. —As those who pause on some delightful wayTho bent on pleasant pilgrimage, we stoodLooking upon the evening, and the floodWhich lay between the city and the shorePaved with the image of the sky. The hoarAnd aery Alps towards the North appearedThro^ mist, an heaven-sustaining bulwark rearedBetween the East and West; and half the skyWas roofed with clouds of rich emblazonry,Dark purple at the zenith, which still grewDown the steep West into a wondrous hueBrighter than burning gold, even to the rentWhere the swift sun yet paused in his descentAmong the many-folded hills : they wereThose famous Euganean hills, which bear[40] A MONG the EiiLrauean ?•^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,
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