Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
Italy: Vols. XI–XIII. 1876–79. | | | | Tiber, the River | | The River Tiber | | Arthur Hugh Clough (1819–1861) |
| | (From Amours de Voyage)
TIBER is beautiful, too, and the orchard slopes, and the Anio | |
| Falling, falling yet, to the ancient lyrical cadence; | |
| Tiber and Anio’s tide; and cool from Lucretilis ever, | |
| With the Digentian stream, and with the Bandusian fountain, | |
| Folded in Sabine recesses, the valley and villa of Horace: | 5 |
| So not seeing I sung; so seeing and listening say I, | |
| Here, as I sit by the stream, as I gaze at the cell of the Sibyl, | |
| Here with Albunea’s home and the grove of Tiburnus beside me; | |
| Tivoli beautiful is, and musical, O Teverone, | |
| Dashing from mountain to plain, thy parted impetuous waters! | 10 |
| Tivoli’s waters and rocks; and fair under Monte Gennaro | |
| (Haunt even yet, I must think, as I wander and gaze, of the shadows, | |
| Faded and pale, yet immortal, of Faunus, the Nymphs, and the Graces), | |
| Fair in itself, and yet fairer with human completing creations, | |
| Folded in Sabine recesses the valley and villa of Horace: | 15 |
| So not seeing I sung; so now, nor seeing nor hearing, | |
| Neither by waterfall lulled, nor folded in sylvan embraces, | |
| Neither by cell of the Sibyl, nor stepping the Monte Gennaro, | |
| Seated on Anio’s bank, nor sipping Bandusian waters, | |
| But on Montorio’s height, looking down on the tile-clad streets, the | 20 |
| Cupolas, crosses, and domes, the bushes and kitchen-gardens, | |
| Which, by the grace of the Tiber, proclaim themselves Rome of the Romans. | | | | |
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