Presente aver gli è avviso L' offesa donna sua, che plori e gema: Nè può soffrir di rimirar quel sangue, Nè quei gemiti udir d'egro che langue.

The print is about the size of a crown-piece, a perfect gema bijou in itself.

The successful poem was, on the whole, not much better and not much worse than the general run of such compositions; but it contained one couplet which Dean Stanley regarded as an absolute gema volume of description condensed into two lines: "Match me such marvel, save in Eastern