Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
Italy: Vols. XI–XIII. 1876–79.
Rome
By Maria Lowell (18211853)T
Up swelled the mighty dome;
The dream of childhood had come true at last,
We were in Rome!
The pale new moon was dropping down the sky,
The pillars of the stately colonnade
Seemed to be marching by.
Its glory and its beautiful decay,
But, like the student in the oft-read story,
I could have turned away
Where the beloved father lay in pain,
To sit beside him in contentment utter,
Never to part again.