Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
Italy: Vols. XI–XIII. 1876–79. | | | | Milan | | The Cathedral of Milan | | Aubrey Thomas de Vere (1814–1902) |
| | | WITH steps subdued, silence, and labor long, | |
| I reached the marble roofs. Awe vanquished dread. | |
| White were they as the summit of Mont Blanc, | |
| When noontide parleys with that mountain’s head. | |
| The far-off Alps, by morning tinged with red, | 5 |
| Blushed through the spires that round in myriads sprung: | |
| A silver gleam the wind-stirred poplars flung | |
| O’er Lombardy’s green sea below me spread. | |
| Of these I little saw. In trance I stood; | |
| Ere death, methought, admitted to the skies; | 10 |
| Around me, like a heavenly multitude | |
| Crowning some specular mount of Paradise, | |
| Thronged that angelic concourse robed in stone: | |
| The sun, ascending, in their faces shone! | | | | |
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