79/137 Between both, there is more than poetic affinity. *_Among the Ruins of a Convent in the Apennines_. [XXIII.] The political revolutions of our time have multiplied on the Continent objects that unavoidably call forth reflections such as are expressed in these verses, but the ruins in those countries are too recent to exhibit in anything like an equal degree the beauty with which time and Nature have invested the remains of our convents and abbeys. These verses, it will be observed, take up the beauty long before it is matured, as one cannot but wish it may be among some of the desolations of Italy, France, and Germany. *_Sonnets after leaving Italy_. |