Classic and Contemporary Poetry
VERSES ON THE CALDER IN ITS COURSE BY ST. ENOCH'S, ROSEHALL, ETC., by JANET HAMILTON Poet's Biography First Line: Lone calder! Sweet calder! Beloved of my youth Last Line: A song that is nameless thy beauties to sing. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Nature; Past; Youth | ||||||||
LONE CALDER! sweet Calder! beloved of my youth, When Nature I worshipped with fervour and truth; Sweet memories float like a beautiful dream O'er thy musical woodlands and murmuring stream. 'Tis fifty long years since, and now as I range Thy flower-spangled margin, alas, for the change! My youthful companions, ah! where have ye fled? Sweet, sad voices whisperThey sleep with the dead. Bright, golden-haired Bella, dear, delicate Anne, And warm-hearted Jessie, how swiftly ye ran Down the dell of the hyacinth your cousin to meet, And guide through the Calder her small, shrinking feet! Then o'er thy green holms we went bounding along, And woke up the echoes with laughter and song; With freedom and sunshine, with birds, and with flowers, And young hearts all joyous, how swift sped the hours! Dear Jessie, thou only, of all the blithe train, Art leftshall I ever behold thee again? Thy pale, gentle mother went early to rest, And her dear ones soon followed to sleep on her breast. Sweet sylvan St. Enoch's! fond mem'ry recalls Sweet voices, fair faces that dwelt in thy halls 'Tis long since they left, and the stranger possessed The home of their fathersthe dearest, the best. From thy desolate chambers, O lonely Rosehall! The dwellers have vanished" the steed from the stall;" The hearts that have loved thee and owned thee are dust, And thy chill halls are tarnished with mildew and rust. Though garlands of poesy entwine not thy brow, Nor bard in soft numbers thy charms will avow; Yet, Calder, a muse that is nameless will bring A song that is nameless thy beauties to sing. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...BETWEEN THE WARS by ROBERT HASS THE GOLDEN SHOVEL by TERRANCE HAYES ALONG WITH YOUTH by ERNEST HEMINGWAY THE BLACK RIVIERA by MARK JARMAN A BALLAD FOUNDED ON A REAL INCIDENT WHICH OCCURED IN HIGH LIFE by JANET HAMILTON |
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