FOR thee, Ausonia! Nature's bounteous hand, Luxuriant spreads around her blooming stores, Profusion laughs o'er all the glowing land, And softest breezes from thy mvrtle-shores. Yet though for thee unclouded suns diffuse Their genial radiance o'er thy blushing plains; Though in thy fragrant groves the sportive muse Delights to pour her wild, enchanted strains; Though airs that breathe of paradise are thine, Sweet as the Indian or Arabian gales, Though fruitful olive and empurpling vine, Enrich, fair Italy, thy Alpine vales; Yet far from thee inspiring freedom flies, To Albion's coast and ever-varying skies. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...HYBRIDS OF WAR: A MORALITY POEM: 1. VIETNAM by KAREN SWENSON ON THE LOSS OF THE ROYAL GEORGE by WILLIAM COWPER IDLENESS by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL FOUR PRELUDES ON PLAYTHINGS OF THE WIND by CARL SANDBURG LOVE IS MASTER STILL by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT |