Farewell parental scenes! a sad farewell! To you my grateful heart still fondly clings, Tho' fluttering round on Fancy's burnish'd wings Her tales of future Joy Hope loves to tell. Adieu, adieu! ye much lov'd cloisters pale! Ah! would those happy days return again, When 'neath your arches, free from every stain, I heard of guilt and wonder'd at the tale! Dear haunts! where oft my simple lays I sang, Listening meanwhile the echoings of my feet, Lingering I quit you, with as great a pang, As when erewhile, my weeping childhood, torn By early sorrow from my native seat, Mingled its tears with hers -- my widow'd Parent lorn. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...CITY VIGNETTE: RAIN AT NIGHT by SARA TEASDALE THE WHITE WOMEN by MARY ELIZABETH COLERIDGE A SMILE AS SMALL AS MINE by EMILY DICKINSON I, TOO by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES THE RAINBOW [IN THE SKY] by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH MONOTONOUS VARIETY by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS |