Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
Italy: Vols. XI–XIII. 1876–79. | | | | Arquà | | Written in Petrarch’s House | | Richard Monckton Milnes, Lord Houghton (1809–1885) |
| | | PETRARCH! I would that there might be | |
| In this thy household sanctuary | |
| No visible monument of thee: | |
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| The fount that whilom played before thee, | |
| The roof that rose in shelter o’er thee, | 5 |
| The low fair hills that still adore thee,— | |
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| I would no more; thy memory | |
| Must loathe all cold reality, | |
| Thought-worship only is for thee. | |
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| They say thy tomb lies there below; | 10 |
| What want I with the marble show? | |
| I am content,—I will not go: | |
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| For though by poesy’s high grace | |
| Thou saw’st, in thy calm resting-place, | |
| God, love, and nature face to face; | 15 |
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| Yet now that thou art wholly free, | |
| How can it give delight to see | |
| That sign of thy captivity? | | | | |
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