SWEETEST of the pensive hours, Welcome to our Cambrian bowers; While the harp with plaintive close, Bids us love the song of woes; Or the lute so gaily sweet, Echoes through this wild retreat; While our hearts with frolic pleasure, Vibrate to the dulcet measure; We will bless thy soothing power, Sweet and pensive moonlight hour. By the soft expressive sigh We breathe to mournful melody; By the poet's melting trance, And by his visions of romance; By the lover's trembling tear, To sorrow and to rapture dear; Ever be thy shadowy beam Sacred as the minstrel's theme. Sweetest of the pensive hours, Welcome to our Cambrian bowers. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...NATURA NATURANS by ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH SING-SONG; A NURSERY RHYME BOOK: 93 by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI THE LOVER TO THE THAMES OF LONDON TO FAVOUR HIS LADY ... by GEORGE TURBERVILLE DON'T YOU WISH YOU KNEW! by A. H. B. REBEL FAITH by WILLIAM ROSE BENET THE FOOD OF THE SOUL by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE |