Time & Brevity

Bell-Ringing in Italy

by Walter Savage Landor 1775–1864

From Heroic Idyls (1863)

Time & Brevity

Ye poor Italians who are plunged in hell
Have yet one comfort left, ye never hear
At morn and noon and night the eternal bell ;
All other torments be resigned to bear.

MLA

Landor, Walter Savage. “Bell-Ringing in Italy.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/landor/230/.

Chicago

Landor, Walter Savage. “Bell-Ringing in Italy.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/landor/230/.

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