Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
Italy: Vols. XI–XIII. 1876–79. | | | | Naples | | Naples | | William Gibson (1826–1887) |
| | | DELIGHTFUL city of Parthenope, | |
| Still the soft airs that fan thee seem enchanted; | |
| By song and beauty crescent shores still haunted | |
| Along thy bright bay, once the siren’s sea! | |
| Well I remember, gazing now on thee, | 5 |
| The wishful dreams, with which my childhood panted, | |
| Of charms, in volumes of dumb Latin vaunted, | |
| Or vowelled in rich Italian melody. | |
| From Capri’s rocky isle, where ruins gray | |
| The memory of the first proud Cæsars rear | 10 |
| To where Misenum overlooks the bay,— | |
| Rome’s galley-navy used to anchor near,— | |
| The shades of yore, the lights of yesterday, | |
| Hallow each wall and wave and headland here! | | | | |
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