Classic and Contemporary Poetry
GLENARA, by THOMAS CAMPBELL Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O heard ye yon pibroch sound sad in the gale Last Line: Now joy to the house of fair ellen of lorn! Subject(s): Rescues | ||||||||
O HEARD ye yon pibroch sound sad in the gale, Where a band cometh slowly with weeping and wail? 'Tis the chief of Glenara laments for his dear; And her sire, and the people, are called to her bier. Glenara came first with the mourners and shroud; Her kinsmen they followed, but mourned not aloud: Their plaids all their bosoms were folded around: They marched all in silence -- They looked on the ground. In silence they reached over mountain and moor, To a heath, where the oak-tree grew lonely and hoar: "Now here let us place the gray stone of her cairn: Why speak ye no word?" -- said Glenara the stern. "And tell me, I charge you! ye clan of my spouse, Why fold ye your mantles, why cloud ye your brows?" So spake the rude chieftain: -- no answer is made, But each mantle unfolding a dagger displayed. "I dreamed of my lady, I dreamed of her shroud," Cried a voice from the kinsmen, all wrathful and loud; "And empty that shroud, and that coffin did seem: Glenara! Glenara! now read me my dream!" O! pale grew the cheek of that chieftain, I ween, When the shroud was unclosed, and no lady was seen When a voice from the kinsmen spoke louder in scorn, 'Twas the youth who had loved the fair Ellen of Lorn. "I dreamed of my lady, I dreamed of her grief, I dreamed that her lord was a barbarous chief: On a rock of the ocean fair Ellen did seem; Glenara! Glenara! now read me my dream!" In dust, low the traitor has knelt to the ground, And the desert revealed where his lady was found; From a rock of the ocean that beauty is borne -- Now joy to the house of fair Ellen of Lorn! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...SONG: A LADY, RESCUED FROM DEATH BY A KNIGHT, WHO LEAVES HER by THOMAS CAREW OUT OF THE DEPTHS' by ABRAM JOSEPH RYAN BATTLE OF THE BALTIC by THOMAS CAMPBELL DOWNFALL OF POLAND [FALL OF WARSAW, 1794] by THOMAS CAMPBELL EXILE OF ERIN by THOMAS CAMPBELL FREEDOM AND LOVE by THOMAS CAMPBELL HALLOWED GROUND by THOMAS CAMPBELL HOHENLINDEN by THOMAS CAMPBELL LORD ULLIN'S DAUGHTER by THOMAS CAMPBELL NAPOLEON AND THE BRITISH [OR ENGLISH] SAILOR [BOY] by THOMAS CAMPBELL |
|