He felt as keenly as his wife, or as Shelley; but his feeling broke out in fitful allusion or sardonic jest in the _De Gustibus_ or the _Old Pictures_--not in a _Casa Guidi Windows_, or _Songs before Congress_, an _Ode to Naples_, or a _Hellas_.

An "Ode" containing, by his own account, fierce things about England, he destroyed after Villafranca.

It is only in subtle and original variations that we faintly recognise the broad simple theme of Italy's struggle for deliverance.

The _Patriot_ and _Instans Tyrannus_ both have a kind of nexus with the place and time; but the one is a caustic satire on popular fickleness and the other a sardonically humorous travesty of persecution.

Italy is mentioned in neither.