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PASSAGE OF THE APENNINES by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY

Poet Analysis

First Line: LISTEN, LISTEN, MARY MINE
Last Line: AND THE APENNINE WALKS ABROAD WITH THE STORM.
Subject(s): APENNINES (MOUNTAINS); MOUNTAINS; HILLS; DOWNS (GREAT BRITAIN);
LISTEN, listen, Mary mine,
To the whisper of the Apennine,
It bursts on the roof like the thunder's roar,
Or like the sea on a northern shore,
Heard in its raging ebb and flow
By the captives pent in the cave below.
The Apennine in the light of day
Is a mighty mountain dim and gray,
Which between the earth and sky doth lay;
But when night comes, a chaos dread
On the dim starlight then is spread,
And the Apennine walks abroad with the storm.



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