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Title: With Shelley in Italy : being a selection of the poems and letters of Percy Bysshe Shelley which have to do with his life in Italy from 1818 to 1822
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792-1822 McMahan, Anna Benneson
Subjects: Poetry of places -- Italy Italy -- Description and travel Poetry
Publisher: Chicago : McClurg
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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cleaves the main. Fraught with a later prize;Another Orpheus sings again. And loves, and weeps, and dies.A new Ulysses leaves once moreCalypso for his native shore.( 255 ) WITH SHELLEY IN ITALY Oh, write no more the tale of Troy,If earth Deaths scroll must be! Nor mix with Laian rage the joyWhich dawns upon the free : Although a subtler Sphinx renew Riddles of death Thebes never knew. Another Athens shall arise. And to remoter timeBequeath, like sunset to the skies, The splendour of its prime;And leave, if nought so bright may live,AU earth can take or Heaven can give. Saturn and Love their long reposeShall burst, more bright and good Than all who fell, than One who rose.Than many unsubdued: Not gold, not blood, their altar dowers. But votive tears and symbol flowers. Oh, cease ! must hate and death return ? Cease! must men kill and die ?Cease! drain not to its dregs the urn Of bitter prophecy.The world is weary of the past,Oh, might it die or rest at last! ( 256 ) THE YEAR 1822 9^ 1
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THE YEAR 1822 PISA: BAY OF LERICI INTRODUCTORY ^LL Winter long, a seaside residence for the Sum->^f mer had been the talk of the little colony of friendsat Pisa. House-himti7ig began in Febriuiry, butproved to be so difficult that in the end only one housecould be secured for the two families of Shelley andWilliams, and the remainder of the group gave up al-together the idea of removal. The place selected loasCasa Magni, now known as Casa Maccarini, on the Bayof Lerici near tlie little fishing-village of San Terenzo.To this hoiise, whose foundations were built in the verymidst of the waves, and zvhich, when storms raged andthe waters dashed against it, seemed quite as much boatas house, they removed in the last days of April, 1822.A third story has been added since the time of the SJielleysand a modern road now passesin front, but the arrange-ment of the interior is quite unaltered. The wide terracerunning entirely across the front of the house is its prin-cipal charm, and here one

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