Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ON REVISITING DUNOLLY CASTLE, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The captive bird was gone - to cliff or moor Last Line: That animate my way where'er it leads! Subject(s): Birds; Castles; Eagles; Ireland; Irish | ||||||||
THE captive Bird was gone; -- to cliff or moor Perchance had flown, delivered by the storm; Or he had pined, and sunk to feed the worm: Him found we not: but, climbing, a tall tower, There saw, impaved with rude fidelity Of art mosaic, in a roofless floor, An Eagle with stretched wings, but beamless eye -- An Eagle that could neither wail nor soar. Effigy of the Vanished -- (shall I dare To call thee so?) or symbol of fierce deeds And of the towering courage which past times Rejoiced in -- take, whate'er thou be, a share, Not undeserved, of the memorial rhymes That animate my way where'er it leads! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE SIGHTSEERS by PAUL MULDOON THE DREAM SONGS: 290 by JOHN BERRYMAN AN IRISH HEADLAND by ROBINSON JEFFERS THE GIANT'S RING: BALLYLESSON, NEAR BELFAST by ROBINSON JEFFERS IRELAND; WRITTEN FOR THE ART AUTOGRAPH DURING IRISH FAMINE by SIDNEY LANIER THE EYES ARE ALWAYS BROWN by GERALD STERN A JEWISH FAMILY; IN A SMALL VALLEY OPPOSITE ST. GOAR by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH |
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