Classic and Contemporary Poetry
LIBERTY, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where the bold rock majestic towers on high Last Line: Liberty delights to rove. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Freedom; Liberty | ||||||||
WHERE the bold rock majestic towers on high, Projecting to the sky; Where the impetuous torrent's rapid course Dashes with headlong force; Where scenes less wild less awful meet the eye, And cultured vales and cottages appear; Where softer tints the mellow landscape dye, More simply beautiful, more fondly dear; There sportive Liberty delights to rove, To rove unseen, In the dell, or in the grove, 'Midst woodlands green. And when placid eve advancing, Faintly shadows all the ground; Liberty with Hebe dancing, Wanders through the meads around. Fair wreaths of brightest flowers she loves to twine, Moss-rose, and blue-bell wild; The pink, the hyacinth with these combine, And azure violet, nature's sweetest child! When the moon beam silvery streaming, Pierces through the myrtle shade; Then her eye with pleasure beaming, She trips along the sylvan glade. She loves to sing in accents soft, When the wood-lark soars aloft ; She loves to wake the sprightly horn, And swell the joyful note to celebrate the morn! In the dell, or in the grove, Liberty delights to rove; By the ruined moss-grown tower, By the wood-land, or the bower; On the summit thence to view, The landscape clad in varied hue. By the hedge-row on the lawn, Sporting with the playful fawn; Where the winding river flows, And the pensile osier grows, In the cool impervious grove, Liberty delights to rove. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...LOVE THE WILD SWAN by ROBINSON JEFFERS AFTER TENNYSON by AMBROSE BIERCE QUARTET IN F MAJOR by WILLIAM MEREDITH CROSS THAT LINE by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE EMANCIPATION by ELIZABETH ALEXANDER A DIRGE (1) by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS |
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