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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
BOTHWELL'S SISTERS THREE; A FRAGMENT, by WALTER SCOTT Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When fruitful clydesdale's apple-bowers Last Line: Proud pembroke's earl was he while -- | |||
WHEN fruitful Clydesdale's apple bowers Are mellowing in the noon, When sighs round Pembroke's ruin'd towers The sultry breath of June, When Clyde, despite his sheltering wood, Must leave his channel dry, And vainly o'er the limpid flood The angler guides his fly, -- If chance by Bothwell's lovely braes A wanderer thou hast been, Or hid thee from the summer's blaze In Blantyre's bowers of green, Full where the copsewood opens wild Thy pilgrim step hath staid, Where Bothwell's towers, in ruin piled O'erlook the verdant glade, And many a tale of love and fear Hath mingled with the scene -- Of Bothwell's banks that bloom'd so dear, And Bothwell's bonny Jean -- O, if with rugged minstrel lays Unsated be thy ear, And thou of deeds of other days Another tale wilt hear, -- Then all beneath the spreading beech, Flung careless on the lea, The Gothic muse the tale shall teach Of Bothwell's sisters three. Wight Wallace stood on Deckmont head, He blew his bugle round, Till the wild bull in Cadyow wood Has started at the sound. Saint George's cross, o'er Bothwell hung, Was waving far and wide, And from the lofty turret flung Its crimson blaze on Clyde; And rising at the bugle blast That marked the Scottish foe, Old England's yeomen muster'd fast, And bent the Norman bow. Tall in the midst Sir Aylmer rose, Proud Pembroke's Earl was he While -- | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...GATHERING SONG OF DONALD [OR, DONUI DHU] THE BLACK by WALTER SCOTT MACGREGOR'S GATHERING by WALTER SCOTT ONE CROWDED HOUR, FR. OLD MORTALITY by WALTER SCOTT PROUD MAISIE, FR. THE HEART OF MIDLOTHIAN by WALTER SCOTT REBECCA'S HYMN, FR. IVANHOE by WALTER SCOTT THE DREARY CHANGE by WALTER SCOTT THE MAID OF NEIDPATH by WALTER SCOTT A SONG OF VICTORY, FR. THE HOUSE OF ASPEN by WALTER SCOTT A VIRELAI, FR. IVANHOE by WALTER SCOTT |
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