RICHMOND, dost thou remember Rapperschwyl, And the sweet banks of Zurich's lovely lake, As on its bridge we leisurely 'gan wheel; And how you trembled when you felt it shake; How the old tower sent forth a merry peal, Making the mountain echoes all awake? And how the garden we could not forsake, Till the moon rose night's glory to reveal? Methinks even now I see the tiny tower, With its mile-long unparapetted bridge, And in the lake, a thousand fathoms down, Enshrined, reversed, its emerald mountain-ridge, And feel that earth has still an Eden left, Nor is of Eden feelings all bereft. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ODE FOR THE AMERICAN DEAD IN ASIA by THOMAS MCGRATH SING-SONG; A NURSERY RHYME BOOK: 90 by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI TO HARTLEY COLERIDGE; SIX YEARS OLD by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH TO A THESAURUS by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS THE HANDSOME KNIGHT by MUHAMMAD AL-MU'TAMID II PEARLS OF THE FAITH: 3. AR-RAHEEM by EDWIN ARNOLD RELEASE by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE THE SEA GULL by JOHN GARDINER CALKINS BRAINARD SONNETS FROM THE PORTUGUESE: 24 by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING |