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Hunt and Lee, comps. The Book of the Sonnet. 1867.

III. Eydon Hall

George James De Wilde

  • (The Seat of the Rev. C. F. Annesley)
  • “Era il detto luogo sopra una piccola montagnetta, da ogni parte lontano alquanto alle nostre strade, di varj albuscelli e piante tutte di verde fronde ripieno, piacevoli a riguardare: in sul colmo della quale era un palagio …. con pratelli dattorno, e con giardini maravigliosi.”—BOCCACCIO.


  • VERT alleys with trim trees arching o’erhead,

    And ending in a vista of blue hills,

    Statue, or vase, or nook where grottoed rills,

    Trickling from stone to stone, clear coolness shed;

    Elsewhere a pleasaunce, with quaint patterns spread

    Of rarest flowers; an orangery that fills

    The air with that sweet odor which distils

    From Lisbon or the Azores, seaward led.

    There needs but laughter from the shrubberies coming,

    Ladies, and rustling silks, a gorgeous show,

    And mantled cavaliers chitarras strumming

    Or whispering love in willing ears;—and lo!

    A picture by Lancret or by Watteau,

    Or tale recorded by Boccaccio.