Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
Italy: Vols. XI–XIII. 1876–79. | | | | Rome, the Protestant Burial-Ground | | Three Flowers | | Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1836–1907) |
| | To Bayard Taylor
HEREWITH I send you three pressed withered flowers: | |
| This one was white, with golden star; this, blue | |
| As Capri’s cave; that, purple and shot through | |
| With sunset-orange. Where the Duomo towers | |
| In diamond air, and under hanging bowers | 5 |
| The Arno glides, this faded violet grew | |
| On Landor’s grave; from Landor’s heart it drew | |
| Its magic azure in the long spring hours. | |
| Within the shadow of the Pyramid | |
| Of Caius Cestius was the daisy found, | 10 |
| White as the soul of Keats in Paradise. | |
| The pansy,—there were hundreds of them, hid | |
| In the thick grass that folded Shelley’s mound, | |
| Guarding his ashes with most lovely eyes. | | | | |
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