SOFT skies of Italy! how richly drest, Smile these wild scenes in your purpureal glow; What glorious hues, reflected from the west, Float o'er the dwellings of eternal snow! You torrent, foaming down the granite steep, Sparkles all brilliance in the setting beam; Dark glens beneath in shadowy beauty sleep, Where pipes the goatherd by his mountain-stream. Now from yon peak departs the vivid ray, That still at eve its lofty temple knows; From rock and torrent fade the tints away, And all is wrapt in twilight's deep repose: While through the pine-wood gleams the vesper-star, And roves the Alpine gale o'er solitudes afar. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...WHAT DOES A WOMAN WANT? by KAREN SWENSON SONNET: OF THREE GIRLS AND OF THEIR TALK by GIOVANNI BOCCACCIO |