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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
VENICE, by ANONYMOUS
First Line: Here there is no sleep of nights
Last Line: These have touched my dreams with madness
Subject(s): "venice, Italy;
First Line: Here there is no sleep of nights
Last Line: These have touched my dreams with madness
Subject(s): "venice, Italy;
HERE there is no sleep of nights
Though the eve fall soft and soon.
The lagoon
Is starred by many floating lights.
Gleaming walls of marble rise
White against the black lagoon.
Very soon
The white moon will climb the skies.
Where the darkest shadows fall
Someone summoneth the moon
With strange tune;
Night is troubled by the call.
The white stones—the song of sadness
Sighing up from the lagoon
To the moon,—
These have touched my dreams with madness.
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