Classic and Contemporary Poetry
HOWEL'S SONG, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Press on, my steed! I hear the swell Last Line: Than live in rayless night! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Howel Ab Einion Llygliw (14th Century); Love; Myfanwy Vychan (14th Century); Wales; Welshmen; Welshwomen | ||||||||
PRESS on, my steed! I hear the swell Of Valle Crucis' vesper-bell Sweet floating from the holy dell O'er woods and waters round. Perchance the maid I love, e'en now, From Dinas Bran's majestic brow, Looks o'er the fairy world below, And listens to the sound! I feel her presence on the scene! The summer air is more serene! The deep woods wave in richer green, The wave more gently flows! O fair as Ocean's curling foam! Lo! with the balmy hour I come -- The hour that brings the wanderer home, The weary to repose! Haste! on each mountain's darkening crest The glow hath died, the shadows rest, The twilight star on Deva's breast Gleams tremulously bright; Speed for Myfanwy's bower on high! Though scorn may wound me from her eye, Oh! better by the sun to die, Than live in rayless night! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ANTICHRIST, OR THE REUNION OF CHRISTENDOM; AN ODE by GILBERT KEITH CHESTERTON WALES VISITATION by ALLEN GINSBERG WELSH INCIDENT by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES THE BARD; A PINDARIC ODE by THOMAS GRAY THE TRIUMPHS OF OWEN: A FRAGMENT by THOMAS GRAY WELSH LANDSCAPE by RONALD STUART THOMAS A DIRGE (1) by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS |
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