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PASSAGE OF THE APENNINES. - Percy Bysshe Shelley, Posthumous Poems [1824]

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Posthumous Poems (London: John and Henry L. Hunt, 1824).

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PASSAGE OF THE APENNINES.

  • Listen, listen, Mary mine,
  • To the whisper of the Apennine,
  • It bursts on the roof like the thunder’s roar,
  • Or like the sea on a northern shore,
  • Heard in its raging ebb and flow
  • By the captives pent in the cave below.
  • The Apennine in the light of day
  • Is a mighty mountain dim and grey,
  • Which between the earth and sky doth lay;
  • But when night comes, a chaos dread
  • On the dim starlight then is spread,
  • And the Apennine walks abroad with the storm.