Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
Italy: Vols. XI–XIII. 1876–79. | | | | Rome, Hills of | | Hills of Rome | | Joachim du Bellay (1552–1560) |
| | (From The Ruines of Rome)
Translated by Edmund Spenser
SHE, whose high top above the starres did sore, | |
| One foote on Thetis, th’ other on the Morning, | |
| One hand on Scythia, th’ other on the More, | |
| Both heaven and earth in roundnesse compassing; | |
| Iove fearing, least if she should greater growe, | 5 |
| The Giants old should once againe uprise, | |
| Her whelm’d with hills, these Seven Hils, which be nowe | |
| Tombes of her greatnes which did threate the skies: | |
| Upon her head he heapt Mount Saturnal, | |
| Upon her bellie th’ antique Palatine, | 10 |
| Upon her stomacke laid Mount Quirinal, | |
| On her left hand the noysome Esquiline, | |
| And Cælian on the right: but both her feete | |
| Mount Viminal and Aventine doo meete. | | | | |
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