Classic and Contemporary Poetry
A VOYAGE TO TINTERN ABBEY, SELECTION, by SNEYD DAVIES First Line: The crooked bank still winds to something new Last Line: Weep o'er its ruins, at its follies laugh. Subject(s): Nature | ||||||||
THE crooked bank still winds to something new, Oars, scarcely turned, diversify the view; Of trees and stone an intermingled scene, The shady precipice and rocky green. Nature behold, to please and to surprise, Swell into bastions, or in columns rise: Here sinking spaces with dark boughs o'ergrown, And there the naked quarries look a town. At length our pilgrimage's home appears, Tintern her venerable fabric rears, While the sun, mildly glancing in decline, With his last gilding beautifies the shrine: Enter with reverence her hallowed gate, And trace the glorious relics of her state; The meeting arches, pillared walks admire, Or, musing, hearken to the silenced choir. Encircling groves diffuse a solemn grace, And dimly fill th' historic window's place; While pitying shrubs on the bare summit try To give the roofless pile a canopy. Here, O my friends, along the mossy dome In pleasurable sadness let me roam:Look back upon the world in haven safe, Weep o'er its ruins, at its follies laugh. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...INTERRUPTED MEDITATION by ROBERT HASS TWO VIEWS OF BUSON by ROBERT HASS THE FATALIST: HOME by LYN HEJINIAN WRITING IS AN AID TO MEMORY: 17 by LYN HEJINIAN LET US GATHER IN A FLOURISHING WAY by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA IN MICHAEL ROBINS?ÇÖS CLASS MINUS ONE by HICOK. BOB BREADTH. CIRCLE. DESERT. MONARCH. MONTH. WISDOM by JOHN HOLLANDER VARIATIONS: 16 by CONRAD AIKEN UNHOLY SONNET 13 by MARK JARMAN A SCENE [AFTER HUNTING] AT SWALLOWFIELD IN BERKSHIRE by SNEYD DAVIES SPARKLING AND BRIGHT by CHARLES FENNO HOFFMAN TO HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW; ON HIS BIRTHDAY, 27 FEB. 1867 by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL |
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