On this lone island, whose unfruitful breast Feeds but the Summer-shepherd's little flock With scanty herbage from the half-clothed rock, Where osprays, cormorants, and sea-mews rest; Even in a scene so desolate and rude I could with thee for months and years be blest; And of thy tenderness and love possest, Find all my world in this wild solitude! When summer suns these northern seas illume, With thee admire the light's reflected charms, And when drear Winter spreads his cheerless gloom, Still find Elysium in thy shelt'ring arms: For thou to me canst sovereign bliss impart, Thy mind my empire -- and my throne thy heart. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...TO COLE, THE PAINTER, DEPARTING FOR EUROPE by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT ROBIN HOOD, TO A FRIEND by JOHN KEATS PICTURES FROM APPLEDORE: 1 by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL UNCLE ANANIAS by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON THE NATIVE LAND by FRANCISCO DE ALDANA LINES WRITTEN IN LADY'S ALBUM OF DIFFERENT-COLOURED PAPER by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD MON REPOS (MY MOTHER'S GIRLHOOD HOME) by ALFRED BARRETT |