FOR thee, Ausonia! Nature's bounteous hand, Luxuriant spreads around her blooming stores, Profusion laughs o'er all the glowing land, And softest breezes from thy mvrtle-shores. Yet though for thee unclouded suns diffuse Their genial radiance o'er thy blushing plains; Though in thy fragrant groves the sportive muse Delights to pour her wild, enchanted strains; Though airs that breathe of paradise are thine, Sweet as the Indian or Arabian gales, Though fruitful olive and empurpling vine, Enrich, fair Italy, thy Alpine vales; Yet far from thee inspiring freedom flies, To Albion's coast and ever-varying skies. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...EVERYONE KNOWS WHOM THE SAVED ENVY by JAMES GALVIN ONLY OF THEE AND ME by LOUIS UNTERMEYER IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 2 by ALFRED TENNYSON TO THE GALLIC EAGLE by BERNARD BARTON BACH'S ORGAN WORKS by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN JULIA ALPINULA by GEORGE GORDON BYRON TO A FRIEND, TOGETHER WITH AN UNFINISHED POEM by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE |