Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
Italy: Vols. XI–XIII. 1876–79. | | | | Rome, Ruins of | | The Arch of Titus | | Aubrey Thomas de Vere (1814–1902) |
| | | I STOOD beneath the Arch of Titus long; | |
| On Hebrew forms there sculptured long I pored; | |
| Till fancy, by a distant clarion stung, | |
| Woke; and methought there moved that arch toward | |
| A Roman triumph. Lance and helm and sword | 5 |
| Glittered; white coursers tramped and trumpets rung: | |
| Last came, car-borne amid a captive throng, | |
| The laurelled son of Rome’s imperial lord. | |
| As though by wings of unseen eagles fanned | |
| The Conqueror’s cheek, when first that arch he saw, | 10 |
| Burned with the flush he strove in vain to quell. | |
| Titus! a loftier arch than thine hath spanned | |
| Rome and the world with empery and law; | |
| Thereof each stone was hewn from Israel! | | | | |
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