Classic and Contemporary Poetry
FOUNTAIN'S ABBEY, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Never more, when the day is o'er Last Line: With its beauty to cheer decay. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Monasteries; Ruins; Abbeys | ||||||||
NEVER more, when the day is o'er, Will the lonely vespers sound; No bells are ringing -- no monks are singing, When the moonlight falls around. A few pale flowers, which in other hours May have cheered the dreary mood; When the votary turned to the world he had spurned, And repined at the solitude. Still do they blow 'mid the ruins below, For fallen are fane and shrine, And the moss has grown o'er the sculptured stone Of an altar no more divine. Still on the walls where the sunshine falls, The ancient fruit-tree grows; And o'er tablet and tomb, extends the bloom Of many a wilding rose. Fair though they be, yet they seemed to me To mock the wreck below; For mighty the tower, where the fragile flower May now as in triumph blow. Oh, foolish the thought, that my fancy brought; More true and more wise to say, That still thus doth spring, some gentle thing, With its beauty to cheer decay. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE SEMBLABLES by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS VERSES FROM THE GRANDE CHARTREUSE by MATTHEW ARNOLD NETLEY ABBEY; A LEGEND OF HAMPSHIRE by RICHARD HARRIS BARHAM A NIGHT FANCY by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE ELEGY ON NEWSTEAD ABBEY by GEORGE GORDON BYRON NEWSTEAD ABBEY by GEORGE GORDON BYRON SONNET WRITTEN IN A RUINOUS ABBEY by SUSAN EVANCE WRITTEN AT NETLEY ABBEY by SUSAN EVANCE THE ABBEY MASON (WITH MEMORIES OF JOHN HICKS, ARCHITECT) by THOMAS HARDY CALYPSO WATCHING THE OCEAN by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON |
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