Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
Switzerland and Austria: Vol. XVI. 1876–79. | | | | Switzerland: Alps, The | | Evening among the Alps | | Felicia Hemans (1793–1835) |
| | | SOFT skies of Italy! how richly drest, | |
| Smile these wild scenes in your purpureal glow; | |
| What glorious hues, reflected from the west, | |
| Float o’er the dwellings of eternal snow! | |
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| Yon torrent, foaming down the granite steep, | 5 |
| Sparkles all brilliance in the setting beam; | |
| Dark glens beneath in shadowy beauty sleep, | |
| Where pipes the goatherd by his mountain-stream. | |
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| Now from you peak departs the vivid ray, | |
| That still at eve its lofty temple knows; | 10 |
| From rock and torrent fade the tints away, | |
| And all is wrapt in twilight’s deep repose: | |
| While through the pine-wood gleams the vesper-star, | |
| And roves the Alpine gale o’er solitudes afar. | | | | |
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