Rousseau -- Voltaire -- our Gibbon -- and de Stael -- Leman! these names are worthy of thy shore, Thy shore of names like these! wert thou no more, Their memory thy remembrance would recall: To them thy banks were lovely as to all, But they have made them lovelier, for the lore Of mighty minds doth hallow in the core Of human hearts the ruin of a wall Where dwelt the wise and wondrous; but by @3thee@1 How much more, Lake of Beauty! do we feel, In sweetly gliding o'er thy crystal sea, The wild glow of that not ungentle zeal, Which of the heirs of immortality Is proud, and makes the breath of glory real! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE INNOVATOR by STEPHEN VINCENT BENET THE FUNERAL OF YOUTH: THRENODY by RUPERT BROOKE MEDIOCRITY IN LOVE REJECTED by THOMAS CAREW PROPERZIA ROSSI by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS THE MEETING OF THE WATERS by THOMAS MOORE A PRAYER, LIVING AND DYING by AUGUSTUS MONTAGUE TOPLADY |