Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
Italy: Vols. XI–XIII. 1876–79. | | | | Venice | | Venice | | Jacopo Sannazzaro (1458–1530) |
| | Translated by Joseph Addison
VENETIA stands with endless beauties crowned, | |
| And as a world within herself is found. | |
| Hail, queen of Italy! for years to come | |
| The mighty rival of immortal Rome! | |
| Nations and seas are in thy states enrolled, | 5 |
| And kings among thy citizens are told. | |
| Ausonia’s brightest ornament! by thee | |
| She sits a sovereign, unenslaved and free; | |
| By thee, the rude barbarian chased away, | |
| The rising sun cheers with a purer ray | 10 |
| Our western world, and doubly gilds the day. | | | | |
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