Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, VENICE IN THE EVENING, by AUBREY THOMAS DE VERE


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First Line: Alas! Mid all this pomp of the ancient time
Subject(s): Travel


ALAS! mid all this pomp of the ancient time,
And flush of modern pleasure, dull Decay
O'er the bright pageant breathes her shadowy grey.
As on from bridge to bridge I roam and climb
It seems as though some wonder-working chime,
(Whose spell the Vision raised and still can sway)
To some far source were ebbing fast away:
As though, by man unheard, with voice sublime
It bade the sea-born Queen of Cities follow
Her Sire into his watery realm far down-
Beneath my feet the courts sound vast and hollow;
And more than Evening's darkness seems to frown
On sable barks that, swift yet trackless, fleet
Like dreams o'er dim lagune and watery street.






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