Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ON A DESECRATED CHAPEL NEAR LAUSANNE, NOW USED AS A STABLE, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON Poet's Biography First Line: Hard by a brook, whose stream lake leman feeds Last Line: Of saints, that floor hoof-trampled and uptorn! Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E. Subject(s): Churches; Lausanne, Switzerland; Stables; Cathedrals | ||||||||
HARD by a brook, whose stream Lake Leman feeds, A wayside chapel stands,such seems it still; But strains devout no more its echoes fill, And thence unbless'd the passing pilgrim speeds; His toil-worn oxen, when he thither leads, At noon descending from the sun-scorch'd hill, Trac'd on that wall with rude but reverent skill, The sacred cross no more the peasant heeds. If with such joy rejoic'd the angels, when The ox was loos'd in Bethlehem's lowly shed, His crib the cradle of the Virgin-born; How must they weep to see, despis'd of men, The spot His presence blest, worn by the tread Of saints, that floor hoof-trampled and uptorn! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...VIRGIN IN GLASS by JOSEPHINE JACOBSEN THE HOUR BETWEEN DOG AND WOLF: 3. FEEDING THE RABBITS by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR EXPLICATION OF AN IMAGINARY TEXT by JAMES GALVIN DOMESDAY BOOK: FATHER WHIMSETT by EDGAR LEE MASTERS HALF-AND-HALF by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE AT THE CHURCH DOOR by GEORGE SANTAYANA PAST AND PRESENT by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON |
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