The Italian, Volume 2 (of 3)

Wrapt in Olivia's veil, Ellena descended to the music-room, and mingled with the nuns, who were assembled within the grate. Among the monks and pilgrims without it, were some st...

"Thus sang th' unletter'd swain to th' oaks and rills, While the still morn went forth with sandals gray. And now the sun had stretch'd out all the hills, And now was dropt into...

"I under fair pretence of friendly ends, And well-placed words of glozing courtesy, Baited with reasons not unplausible, Wind me into the easy-hearted man, And hug him into snar...

Along the roofs sounds the low peal of Death, And Conscience trembles to the boding note; She views his dim form floating o'er the aisles, She hears mysterious murmurs in the ai...

"The lonely mountains o'er, And the resounding shore, A voice of weeping heard, and loud lament! From haunted spring, and dale, Edg'd with poplar pale, The parting genius is wit...

"In earliest Greece to thee, with partial choice, The grief-full Muse address'd her infant tongue; The maids and matrons on her awful voice, Silent and pale, in wild amazement h...

Call up the spirit of the ocean, bid Him raise the storm! The waves begin to heave, To curl, to foam; the white surges run far Upon the darkening waters, and mighty Sounds of st...

"And yet I fear you; for you are fatal then, When your eyes roll so. ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... Alas! why gnaw you so your nether lip? Some...

Schedoni had returned from the beach to the house, in a state of perturbation, that defied the controul of even his own stern will. On the way thither he met Spalatro, whom, as...

Ellena, when Schedoni had left her, recollected all the particulars, which he had thought proper to reveal concerning her family, and, comparing them with such circumstances as...