Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
Italy: Vols. XI–XIII. 1876–79. | | | | Rome | | Rome | | Maria Lowell (1821–1853) |
| | | THE SUN had set, the city gates were passed, | |
| Up swelled the mighty dome; | |
| The dream of childhood had come true at last, | |
| We were in Rome! | |
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| The fountains trembled in their light and shade, | 5 |
| The pale new moon was dropping down the sky, | |
| The pillars of the stately colonnade | |
| Seemed to be marching by. | |
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| And Rome lay all before us in its glory, | |
| Its glory and its beautiful decay, | 10 |
| But, like the student in the oft-read story, | |
| I could have turned away | |
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| To the still chamber with its half-closed shutter, | |
| Where the beloved father lay in pain, | |
| To sit beside him in contentment utter, | 15 |
| Never to part again. | | | | |
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