Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
Italy: Vols. XI–XIII. 1876–79. | | | | Genoa | | In Genoa | | Cora Kennedy Aitkin |
| | Night at the Paradiso
HOW sweet the stars are, trembling in the sky, | |
| As I look up across the shadowy trees, | |
| Whose branches softly melt in heaven’s seas, | |
| And mix with stars as griefs with destinies. | |
| How sweet they are that overhead do fly | 5 |
| And reel and burn like sweet dreams born divine | |
| That high in heaven grow restless if too fine | |
| For human uses. Sweet the sleepy air | |
| That scarce can hold the moonlight in its arms, | |
| For dreaming and for sleeping; sweet the stair | 10 |
| Of clouds that winds to God, upheld in palms | |
| Of planets poised in the dark atmosphere; | |
| Sweet all things here atwixt the seas and skies,— | |
| Sights, sounds, and odors of this Paradise! | | | | |
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