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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SONNET TO THE DEBEN, by BERNARD BARTON Poet's Biography First Line: Thou windest not through scenery which enchants Last Line: By the bright promise of a cloudless morn. Alternate Author Name(s): Quaker Poet Subject(s): Deben (river), England | |||
THOU windest not through scenery which enchants The gazer's eye with much of grand or fair; Yet on thy margin many a wandering pair Have found that peaceful pleasure nature grants To those who seek her in her humbler haunts, And love and prize them, because she is there: May I then, now the setting sunbeam slants Upon thy bosom, in those pleasures share? Thanks unto Nature, she hath left me yet Some of those better feelings which were born In childhood: may their influence never set; But may it be as gradually withdrawn, As yon sun's beams from thee; chiding regret By the bright promise of a cloudless morn. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...NOT OURS THE VOWS by BERNARD BARTON A POSTSCRIPT by BERNARD BARTON ADDRESS TO SUBSCRIBERS .. FUND FOR CLOTHING CHILDREN CHARITY SCHOOL by BERNARD BARTON AN EVENING PRAYER by BERNARD BARTON AUTUMN; WRITTEN IN THE GROUNDS OF MARTIN COLE, ESQ. by BERNARD BARTON CHILDREN OF LIGHT by BERNARD BARTON CONCLUDING VERSES, AFTER RETURNING HOME FROM AN AUTUMNAL MORNING WALK by BERNARD BARTON |
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