Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
Italy: Vols. XI–XIII. 1876–79. | | | | Ravenna | | Ravenna | | Lord Byron (1788–1824) |
| | (From Don Juan)
SWEET hour of twilight! in the solitude | |
| Of the pine forest, and the silent shore | |
| Which bounds Ravenna’s immemorial wood, | |
| Rooted where once the Adrian wave flowed o’er | |
| To where the last Cæsarean fortress stood, | 5 |
| Evergreen forest; which Boccaccio’s lore | |
| And Dryden’s lay made haunted ground to me, | |
| How have I loved the twilight hour and thee! | |
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| The shrill cicalas, people of the pine, | |
| Making their summer lives one ceaseless song, | 10 |
| Where the sole echoes, save my steed’s and mine, | |
| And vesper bells that rose the boughs along: | |
| The spectre huntsman of Onesti’s line, | |
| His hell-dogs and their chase, and the fair throng | |
| Which learned from this example not to fly | 15 |
| From a true lover,—shadowed my mind’s eye. | | | | |
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