Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
Italy: Vols. XI–XIII. 1876–79.

Vallombrosa

Vallombrosa

By John Milton (1608–1674)

(From Paradise Lost, Book I)

THICK as autumnal leaves that strow the brooks

In Vallombrosa, where the Etrurian shades,

High overarched, embower.