A beautiful place in the county of Wicklow, formerly the the abode of the authoress of "Psyche" [Mrs. Tighe]. O, LIGHTLY tread through these deep chestnut bowers, Where a sweet spirit once in beauty moved! And touch with reverent hand these leaves and flowers, -- Fair things, which well a gentle heart hath loved! A gentle heart, of love and grief the abode, Whence the bright stream of song in tear-drops flowed. And bid its memory sanctify the scene! And let the ideal presence of the dead Float round, and touch the woods with softer green, And o'er the streams a charm, like moonlight, shed, Through the soul's depths in holy silence felt, -- A spell to raise, to chasten, and to melt! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...A BALLAD OF TREES AND THE MASTER by SIDNEY LANIER CELIA'S HOMECOMING by AGNES MARY F. ROBINSON TO CHLOE; AN APOLOGY FOR GOING INTO THE COUNTRY by JOHN WOLCOTT SEVEN SAD SONNETS: 3. THE WANDERING ONE by MARY REYNOLDS ALDIS AUTUMN by JESSIE ALBERT BARNEY THE WANDERER: 5. IN HOLLAND: DEATH-IN-LIFE by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON |