Take a few specimens. Of Italy he says:
"She wraps the purple round her outraged breast,
And even in fetters cannot be a slave."
Again, she
"Stands menacled before the world, and bears
Two hemispheres—innumerable wrongs,
Illimitable glories."
"The soul never
Can twice be virgin—the eye that strikes
Upon the hidden path to the unseen
Is henceforth for two worlds."
"To both worlds
—The inner and the outer—we come naked,
The very noblest heart on earth, hath oft
No better lot than to deserve."
"Before every man the world of beauty,
Like a great artist, standeth night and day
With patient hand retouching in the heart
God's defaced image."
"Rude heaps that had been cities clad the ground
With history."
"Strange fragments
Of forms once held divine, and still, like angels,
Immortal every where."
"The poet,
In some rapt moment of intense attendance,
The skies being genial, and the earthly air
Propitious, catches on the inward ear
The awful and unutterable meanings
Of a divine soliloquy."