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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
GIOTTO'S CAMPANILE, by AUBREY THOMAS DE VERE Poet's Biography
First Line: Enchased with precious marbles, pure and rare
Subject(s): Giotto Di Bondone (1276-1337); Travel
First Line: Enchased with precious marbles, pure and rare
Subject(s): Giotto Di Bondone (1276-1337); Travel
Encased with precious marbles, pure and rare,
How gracefully it soars, and seems the while
From every polished stage to laugh and smile,
Playing with sportive gleams of lucid air!
Fit resting place, methinks, its summit were
For a descended angel! happy isle,
Mid life's rough sea of sorrow, force and guile ,
For saint of royal race, or vestal fair,
In this seclusion, -call it not a prison,-
Cloistering a bosom, innocent and lonely.
O Tuscan Priestess! gladly would I watch
All night one note of thy loud hymn to catch,
Sent forth to greet the sun when first, new-risen,
He shines on that aerial station only!
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