O vale and lake, within your mountain-urn Smiling so tranquilly, and set so deep! Oft doth your dreamy loveliness return, Coloring the tender shadows of my sleep With light Elysian: -- for the hues that steep Your shores in melting luster, seem to float On golden clouds from spirit-lands remote, Isles of the blest; -- and in our memory keep Their place with holiest harmonies: -- Fair scene, Most loved by evening and her dewy star! Oh! ne'er may man, with touch unhallowed, jar The perfect music of the charm serene! Still, still unchanged, may @3one@1 sweet region wear Smiles that subdue the soul to love, and tears, and prayer! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE SINGER OF ONE SONG by HENRY AUGUSTIN BEERS THE BRIDGE by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW HEATHER ALE: A GALLOWAY LEGEND by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON TO A FOIL'D EUROPEAN REVOLUTIONAIRE by WALT WHITMAN MR. STOTHARD TO MR. CROMEK by WILLIAM BLAKE DEDICATIONS AND INSCRIPTIONS: 12. TO YONE NOGUCHI by GORDON BOTTOMLEY |