DASTARDLY slaves! and is it—can it be, That men who @3might@1 have burst their bonds of shame, Have lightly thus abandoned their proud aim, Fixed their own fetters and @3would not@1 be free! What, basely bend again a servile knee! What, crouch before the conqueror's path in tame, Submission! Ye, who dared to breathe the name, The ennobling name of divine Liberty! O Italy! who groaning 'neath the sway Of unresisted tyranny didst deem Deliverance near, now wake from that fond dream, And in the mantle of thy miseries Hiding thy visage wan, oh, turn away And weep that thou producest things like these. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...AND WHAT SHALL YOU SAY? by JOSEPH SEAMON COTTER JR. AT CASTERBRIDGE FAIR: 5. THE INQUIRY by THOMAS HARDY PICTURES FROM APPLEDORE: 1 by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL AT A VACATION EXERCISE IN THE COLLEGE by JOHN MILTON TO THE CUCKOO (1) by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH THE JACKET OF GREY by CAROLINE AUGUSTA BALL PROLOGUE TO THE PLAY OF HENRY THE EIGHTH by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD |