WHERE nature's grand romantic charms invite The glowing rapture of the soul refined; In scenes like these the young poetic mind May court the dreams of fancy with delight; And dear to those by every muse inspired, The rural landscape, and the prospect fair; They love in mountain solitudes retired, To own illusions that may banish care. These gentle visions ever shall remain, To soothe the poet in his pensive hours; For him shall Fancy cull Piërian flowers, And strew her garlands o'er the path of pain: For him shall Memory shed her pensive ray, O'er the soft hours of life's enchanting May. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE SHPEHERD'S HOUR by PAUL VERLAINE BROTHER JONATHAN'S LAMENT FOR SISTER CAROLINE [DECEMBER 2O, 1860] by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES THE NEW EZEKIEL by EMMA LAZARUS FALLING ASLEEP by SIEGFRIED SASSOON ELEGY FOR A DEAD KING by AL-KUTANDI CHINA 1937 by LAURA FRANCES ALEXANDER THE OUTLAW'S SONG by JOANNA BAILLIE A COMMENT ON THE SCRIPTURE: 'IN THE BEGINNING WAS THE WORD', JOHN, I,1 by JOHN BYROM ENDORSEMENT TO THE DEED OF SEPARATION, IN THE APRIL OF 1816 by GEORGE GORDON BYRON |