Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SONNET: TO L.T. IN FLORENCE, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH Poet's Biography First Line: You by the arno shape your marble dream Last Line: For one poor cowslip or anemone. Subject(s): Absence; Florence, Italy; Homesickness; Separation; Isolation | ||||||||
YOU by the Arno shape your marble dream, Under the cypress and the olive trees, While I, this side the wild, wind-beaten seas, Unrestful by the Charles's placid stream, Long once again to catch the golden gleam Of Brunelleschi's dome, and lounge at ease In those pleached gardens and fair galleries. And yet, perhaps, you envy me, and deem My star the happier, since it holds me here. Even so, one time, beneath the cypresses My heart turned longingly across the sea, Aching with love for thee, New England dear! And I'd have given all Titian's goddesses For one poor cowslip or anemone. | Other Poems of Interest...AFTER CALLIMACHUS by JOHN HOLLANDER THE EVENING OF THE MIND by DONALD JUSTICE CHRISTMAS AWAY FROM HOME by JANE KENYON THE PROBLEM by CHARLOTTE FISKE BATES WHEN A WOMAN LOVES A MAN by DAVID LEHMAN THIS UNMENTIONABLE FEELING by DAVID LEHMAN |
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