Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
Italy: Vols. XI–XIII. 1876–79. | | | | Ravenna | | Ravenna | | John Edmund Reade (1800–1870) |
| | (From Italy)
SILENT Ravenna! through thy desolate streets | |
| Flits the dim shadow of departed power, | |
| Felt on the heart which thy great tale repeats; | |
| Thou that didst prop Rome’s empire for an hour, | |
| Shade of a shadow! yet is thine the dower | 5 |
| That with a ray of light hath thee arrayed, | |
| Thou hold’st the dust of Dante; in that tower | |
| His bones by Florence begged in vain are laid: | |
| His passionate appeal to her as vainly made. | | | | |
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