Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
Italy: Vols. XI–XIII. 1876–79. | | | | Liguria | | Liguria | | James Thomson (1700–1748) |
| | (From Liberty)
THE BARREN rocks themselves beneath my foot, | |
| Relenting bloomed on the Ligurian shore. | |
| Thick swarming people there, like emmets, seized | |
| Amid surrounding cliffs, the scattered spots | |
| Which Nature left in her destroying rage, | 5 |
| Made their own fields, nor sighed for other lands. | |
| There, in white prospect from the rocky hill | |
| Gradual descending to the sheltered shore, | |
| By me proud Genoa’s marble turrets rose. | |
| And while my genuine spirit warmed her sons, | 10 |
| Beneath her Dorias, not unworthy, she | |
| Vied for the trident of the narrow seas, | |
| Ere Britain had yet opened all the main. | | | | |
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