Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
Italy: Vols. XI–XIII. 1876–79. | | | | Genoa | | Genoa | | William Gibson (1826–1887) |
| | Evening
GENTLY, as roses die, the day declines; | |
| On the charmed air there is a hush the while; | |
| And delicate are the twilight-tints that smile | |
| Upon the summits of the Apennines. | |
| The moon is up; and o’er the warm wave shines | 5 |
| A faery bridge of light, whose beams beguile | |
| The fancy to some far and fortunate isle, | |
| Which love in solitude unlonely shrines. | |
| The blue night of Italian summer glooms | |
| Around us; over the crystalline swell | 10 |
| I gaze on Genoa’s spires and palace-domes: | |
| City of cities, the superb, farewell! | |
| The beautiful, in nature’s bloom, is thine; | |
| And Art hath made it deathless and divine! | | | | |
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