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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
First Line: Ye towers sublime! Deserted now and drear!
Last Line: Saved by the historic page -- the poet's tender lay!
Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Charlotte Turner
Subject(s): Sidney, Algernon (1622-1682); Sidney, Lady Dorothy (1617-1684); Waller, Edmund (1606-1687)
Ye towers sublime! deserted now and drear!
Ye woods! deep sighing to the hollow blast,
The musing wanderer loves to linger near,
While History points to all your glories past:
And startling from their haunts the timid deer,
To trace the walks obscured by matted fern,
Which Waller's soothing lyre were wont to hear,
But where now clamours the discordant hern!
The spoiling hand of Time may overturn
These lofty battlements, and quite deface
The fading canvas whence we love to learn
Sydney's keen look, and Sacharissa's grace;
But fame and beauty still defy decay,
Saved by the historic page -- the poet's tender lay!
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