Thomas Hardy: Genoa and the Mediterranean (March, 1887)
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Genoa and the Mediterranean (March, 1887)

6/2/1840-1/11/1928


O epic-famed, god-haunted Central Sea,
         Heave careless of the deep wrong done to thee
When from Torino's track I saw thy face first flash on me.

         And multimarbled Genova the Proud,
         Gleam all unconscious how, wide-lipped, up-browed,
I first beheld thee clad--not as the Beauty but the Dowd.

         Out from a deep-delved way my vision lit
         On housebacks pink, green, ochreous--where a slit
Shoreward 'twixt row and row revealed the classic blue through it.

         And thereacross waved fishwives' high-hung smocks,
         Chrome kerchiefs, scarlet hose, darned underfrocks;
Since when too oft my dreams of thee, O Queen, that frippery mocks:

         Whereat I grieve, Superba! . . . Afterhours
         Within Palazzo Doria's orange bowers
Went far to mend these marrings of thy soul-subliming powers.

         But, Queen, such squalid undress none should see,
         Those dream-endangering eyewounds no more be
Where lovers first behold thy form in pilgrimage to thee.


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