Category: Poetry
IN Italy the poems of Gabriele Rossetti have enjoyed a large amount of celebrity, and they are still held in honoured remembrance; his prose works are there known rather by rumour than in perusal. In England the case of the prose works is much the same, while the poems are as...
... I should indeed like to see our skittish Christina, with those rosy cheeks and sparkling eyes, so like her grandmother’s, walking all alone about the garden, like a little b...
12. Part 12King Joseph and King Joachim have been depicted by grave historians, and I will not add anything regarding their public and private character. But, for truth’s sake, I may say t...
9. Part 9Let me add my thanks to the rest of the world for the mental enjoyment afforded by your _Beatrice_. My share is the greater for the handsome and honourable mention you make of m...
8. Part 8... It is impossible to continue without exhibiting the most intimate mysteries of the sect, seeing that the entire poem of Dante, all the lyrics of Petrarca, almost all the wor...
4. Part 4On my assent, a spacious hall prepares For ladies, men of letters, diplomats. There that distinguished man enraptured heard My burst of song ’mid plaudits many and full;[45] And...
6. Part 6But, if I am condemned to days so black, At least let Tyranny not therefor joy. I, in this night to which no dawn ensues, Record a vow to raise my chaunt ’gainst her So long as...
3. Part 3The young men, nettled by a noble scorn, Called _me_ Professor--not the other man; And I at home opened a private class, Where I was trainer of some vivid minds: And, if I thith...
5. Part 5Hardly had I set foot upon the land But I around me felt a freer air: ’Mid grand activity which knows no pause I found my own increasing day by day; And by the influences which...
2. Part 2Many gave homage to the new-built throne; And I, while scorning any cringing phrase, Struck on my lyre, and spread abroad its sound, Saluting that forthcoming period: And what I...
11. Part 11Poichè l’onda varcai non mai tranquilla Ove spiran talor venti insoavi, Fra cui Cariddi freme e latra Scilla, Scilla e Cariddi che le intere navi Ingoian nelle viscere petrose,...
10. Part 10For myself, I, as you know, do not believe in King nor in Pope: I believe in God and in ourselves. They may do what they choose, and try to compromise Charles Albert[100] in the...
1. Part 1IN Italy the poems of Gabriele Rossetti have enjoyed a large amount of celebrity, and they are still held in honoured remembrance; his prose works are there known rather by rumo...
13. Part 13[58] Literally, “will know how to pierce.” Sand (as it may be hardly requisite to say) was a German student who on political grounds assassinated the poet Kotzebue; Louvel, a Fr...