Chatsworth! thy stately mansion, and the pride Of thy domain, strange contrast do present To house and home in many a craggy rent Of the wild Peak; where new-born waters glide Through fields whose thrifty occupants abide As in a dear and chosen banishment, With every semblance of entire content; So kind is simple Nature, fairly tried! Yet He whose heart in childhood gave her troth To pastoral dales, thin-set with modest farms, May learn, if judgement strengthen with his growth, That, not for Fancy only, pomp hath charms; And, strenuous to protect from lawless harms The extremes of favoured life, may honour both. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...DEEP IN THE NIGHT by SARA TEASDALE ST. SIMEON STYLITES by ALFRED TENNYSON FRED ENGLEHARDT'S BABY by CHARLES FOLLEN ADAMS MADISON CAWEIN by MARGARET STEELE ANDERSON THE MYSTIC by PHILIP JAMES BAILEY BETWEEN SLEEP AND WAKING by MATHILDE BLIND |