Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
Italy: Vols. XI–XIII. 1876–79. | | | | Naples, the Bay | | Song of the Sea | | Rossiter W. Raymond (1840–1918) |
| | | I HAVE swung for ages to and fro; | |
| I have striven in vain to reach thy feet, | |
| O garden of joy! whose walls are low, | |
| And odors are so sweet. | |
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| I palpitate with fitful love; | 5 |
| I sigh and sing with changing breath; | |
| I raise my hands to heaven above, | |
| I smite my shores beneath! | |
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| In vain, in vain! while far and fine, | |
| To curb the madness of my sweep, | 10 |
| Runs the white limit of a line | |
| I may not overleap. | |
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| Once thou wert sleeping on my breast, | |
| Till fiery Titans lifted thee | |
| From the fair silence of thy rest, | 15 |
| Out of the loving sea. | |
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| And I swing eternal to and fro; | |
| I strive in vain to reach thy feet, | |
| O garden of joy! whose walls are low, | |
| And odors are so sweet! | 20 | | | |
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