Classic and Contemporary Poetry
FROM OVER-SEA, by SOPHIE JEWETT Poet's Biography First Line: In italy how comes the spring? Last Line: In italy. Alternate Author Name(s): Burroughs, Ellen Subject(s): Italy; Travel; Universities & Colleges - Faculty; Wellesley College; Italians; Journeys; Trips | ||||||||
IN Italy how comes the spring? I look across wide fields of snow To naked woods, and long to know How fair the shimmering mountains lie? How warm above them bends the sky Of Tuscany? What word from Rome the swallows bring, Swift sent to thee? Here stirs no life of bud nor wing; The trees by icy winds are torn; And yet I dream how flowers are born In Italy. I see the far, fair city swim Through mists of memory bright yet dim Shining, even as it shone of old Through Arno's haze of subtile gold, By witchery Of distance, light and evening spun. Tall cypresses against the sun Distinct I see, Defiling darkly up the hill, As when we wandered at our will In Italy. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...RICHARD, WHAT'S THAT NOISE? by RICHARD HOWARD LOOKING FOR THE GULF MOTEL by RICHARD BLANCO RIVERS INTO SEAS by LYNDA HULL DESTINATIONS by JOSEPHINE JACOBSEN THE ONE WHO WAS DIFFERENT by RANDALL JARRELL THE CONFESSION OF ST. JIM-RALPH by DENIS JOHNSON SESTINA: TRAVEL NOTES by WELDON KEES TO H. B. (WITH A BOOK OF VERSE) by MAURICE BARING A HEARTH-FIRE VERSE by SOPHIE JEWETT |
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