• O ye sweet heavens! your silence is to me
    More than all music. With what full delight
    I come down to my dwelling by the sea
    And look from out the lattice on the night!
    There the same glories burn serene and bright
    As in my boyhood; and if I am old
    Are they not also? Thus my spirit is bold
    To think perhaps we are coeval. Who
    Can...

  •           “o frate mio! ciascuna e cittadina
      D’ una vera citta”…

  • See, from this counterfeit of him
    Whom Arno shall remember long,
    How stern of lineament, how grim,
    The father was of Tuscan song!
    There but the burning sense of wrong,
    Perpetual care, and scorn, abide—
    Small friendship for the lordly throng,
    Distrust of all the world beside.

    Faithful if this wan image be,
    No dream his...