Passage of the Apennines. Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822). Apennines, The. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. 1876-79. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes. Italy: Vols. XI-XIII

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
Italy: Vols. XI–XIII. 1876–79.

Apennines, The

Passage of the Apennines

Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822)


LISTEN, listen, Mary mine,
To the whisper of the Apennine;
It bursts on the roof like the thunder’s roar,
Or like the sea on a northern shore,
Heard in its raging ebb and flow	5
By the captives pent in the cave below.
The Apennine in the light of day
Is a mighty mountain dim and gray,
Which between the earth and sky doth lay;
But when night comes, a chaos dread	10
On the dim starlight then is spread,
And the Apennine walks abroad with the storm.