Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
Italy: Vols. XI–XIII. 1876–79. | | | | Nemi | | Nemi | | Lord Byron (1788–1824) |
| | (From Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage)
LO, Nemi! navelled in the woody hills | |
| So far, that the uprooting wind which tears | |
| The oak from his foundation, and which spills | |
| The ocean o’er its boundary, and bears | |
| Its foam against the skies, reluctant spares | 5 |
| The oval mirror of thy glassy lake; | |
| And, calm as cherished hate, its surface wears | |
| A deep, cold, settled aspect naught can shake, | |
| All coiled into itself and round, as sleeps the snake. | |
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| And near Albano’s scarce divided waves | 10 |
| Shine from a sister valley; and afar | |
| The Tiber winds, and the broad ocean laves | |
| The Latian coast where sprang the Epic war, | |
| “Arms and the Man,” whose reascending star | |
| Rose o’er an empire;—but beneath thy right | 15 |
| Tully reposed from Rome; and where yon bar | |
| Of girdling mountains intercepts the sight | |
| The Sabine farm was tilled, the weary bard’s delight. | | | | |
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