Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ON A SCENE IN TUSCANY, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What good were it to dim the pleasure-glow Last Line: Believe him not, believe him not, my child. Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord Subject(s): Tuscany, Italy | ||||||||
WHAT good were it to dim the pleasure-glow, That lights thy cheek, fair Girl, in scenes like these, By shameful facts, and piteous histories? While we enjoy, what matters what we know? What tender love-sick looks on us below Those Mountains cast! how courteously the Trees Raise up their branching heads in calices For the thick Vine to fill and overflow! This nature is like Thee, all-bright, all-mild; If then some self-wise man should say, that here Hate, sin, and death held rule for many a year, That of this kindliest earth there's not a rood But has been saturate with brother's blood, -- Believe him not, believe him not, my Child. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...AN EVENING IN TUSCANY by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON PAURA NON E NELLA CARITA by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE TO MY MUSE by AGNES MARY F. ROBINSON TUSCAN CYPRESS: RISPETTO 1 by AGNES MARY F. ROBINSON TUSCAN CYPRESS: RISPETTO 10 by AGNES MARY F. ROBINSON TUSCAN CYPRESS: RISPETTO 11 by AGNES MARY F. ROBINSON TUSCAN CYPRESS: RISPETTO 12 by AGNES MARY F. ROBINSON TUSCAN CYPRESS: RISPETTO 13 by AGNES MARY F. ROBINSON COLUMBUS AND THE MAYFLOWER by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES |
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