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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE PINE OF MONTE MARIO AT ROME, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: I saw far off the dark top of a pine
Last Line: Crowned with st. Peter's everlasting dome.
Subject(s): Pine Trees; Rome, Italy; Trees
First Line: I saw far off the dark top of a pine
Last Line: Crowned with st. Peter's everlasting dome.
Subject(s): Pine Trees; Rome, Italy; Trees
I SAW far off the dark top of a Pine
Look like a cloud -- a slender stem the tie
That bound it to its native earth -- poised high
'Mid evening hues, along the horizon line,
Striving in peace each other to outshine.
But when I learned the Tree was living there,
Saved from the sordid axe by Beaumont's care,
Oh, what a gush of tenderness was mine!
The rescued Pine-Tree, with its sky so bright
And cloud-like beauty, rich in thoughts of home,
Death-parted friends, and days too swift in flight,
Supplanted the whole majesty of Rome
(Then first apparent from the Pincian Height)
Crowned with St. Peter's everlasting Dome.
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