Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
Italy: Vols. XI–XIII. 1876–79.
Lombardy
By James Thomson (1700–1748)(From Liberty)
B
Far through Italian bounds their wavy tops,
My path, too, I with public blessings strowed;
Free states and cities, where the Lombard plain,
In spite of culture negligent and gross,
From her deep bosom pours unbidden joys,
And green o’er all the land a garden spreads.