Arts & Sciences
To Dante
From Ballads and Other Poems (1880)
Arts & Sciences
KING, that hast reign'd six hundred years, and grown
In power, and ever growest, since thine own
Fair Florence honouring thy nativity,
Thy Florence now the crown of Italy,
Hath sought the tribute of a verse from me,
I, wearing but the garland of a day,
Cast at thy feet one flower that fades away.
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Tennyson, Alfred, Lord. “To Dante.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/tennyson/381/.
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Tennyson, Alfred, Lord. “To Dante.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/tennyson/381/.
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