Poetical Works of Robert Bridges, Volume 4

by Robert Bridges

Sleeps like an island in the solemn gray:

’Tis beauteous.—

PALICIO.

I love the city: it holds the stir.

To-night I shall be there, and to do something

Worthy of thee.

Mar.Whate’er thou dost, Giovanni,

I could not love thee more.

1750

Pal.Beneath yon roofs