Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
Italy: Vols. XI–XIII. 1876–79. | | | | Venice | | Venice by Day | | Aubrey Thomas de Vere (1814–1902) |
| | | THE SPLENDOR of the Orient, here of old | |
| Throned with the West, upon a waveless sea, | |
| Her various-vested, resonant jubilee | |
| Maintains, though Venice hath been bought and sold. | |
| In their high stalls of azure and of gold | 5 |
| Yet stand, above the servile concourse free, | |
| Those brazen steeds,—the Car of Victory | |
| Hither from far Byzantium’s porch that rolled. | |
| The wingéd Lions, Time’s dejected thralls, | |
| Glare with furled plumes. The pictured shapes that glow | 10 |
| Like sunset clouds condensed upon the walls, | |
| Still boast old wars, or feasts of long ago; | |
| And still the sun his amplest glory pours | |
| On all those swelling domes and watery floors. | | | | |
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