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ReadingWillow structured literacy program for Australian students

Passage of the Apennines

Percy Bysshe Shelley·1792–1822
Lines:13Movement:Romanticism
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 flowBy the captives pent in the cave below.The Apennine in the light of dayIs a mighty mountain dim and gray,Which between the earth and sky doth lay;But when night comes, a chaos dreadOn the dim starlight then is spread,And the Apennine walks abroad with the storm,Shrouding...