Arts & Sciences
Milton in Italy
From Heroic Idyls (1863)
Arts & Sciences
O Milton ! couldst thou rise again and see
The land thou lovedst in thy earlier day,
See springing from her tomb fair Italy
(Fairer than ever) cast her shroud away,
That tightly-fasten'd triply-folded shroud.
Torn by her children off their mother's face!
O couldst thou see her now, more justly proud
Than of an earlier and a stronger race!
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MLA
Landor, Walter Savage. “Milton in Italy.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/landor/248/.
Chicago
Landor, Walter Savage. “Milton in Italy.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/landor/248/.
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