Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
Italy: Vols. XI–XIII. 1876–79. | | | | Milan | | Milan | | Ausonius (c. 310–395) |
| | Translated by Joseph Addison
MILAN with plenty and with wealth o’erflows, | |
| And numerous streets and cleanly dwellings shows; | |
| The people, blessed with nature’s happy force, | |
| Are eloquent and cheerful in discourse; | |
| A circus and a theatre invites | 5 |
| The unruly mob to races and to fights. | |
| Moneta consecrated buildings grace, | |
| And the whole town redoubled walls embrace; | |
| Here spacious baths and palaces are seen, | |
| And intermingled temples rise between; | 10 |
| Here circling colonnades the ground enclose, | |
| And here the marble statues breathe in rows: | |
| Profusely graced the happy town appears, | |
| Nor Rome itself her beauteous neighbor fears. | | | | |
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