Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SONNET. TO COLEBROOKE DALE, by ANNA SEWARD Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thy genius, colebrooke, faithless to his charge Last Line: Drowns the wild woodland song, and breaks the poet's spell. Alternate Author Name(s): Seward, Nancy Subject(s): Industrial Revolution | ||||||||
THY Genius, Colebrooke, faithless to his charge Amid thy woods and vales, thy rocks and streams, Formed for the train that haunt poetic dreams, Naiads and nymphs, -- now hears the toiling barge And the swart Cyclops' ever-changing forge Din in thy dells; -- permits the dark-red gleams, From umbered fires on all thy hills, the beams, Solar and pure, to shroud with columns large Of black sulphureous smoke, that spread their veils Like funeral crape upon the sylvan robe Of thy romantic rocks, pollute thy gales, And stain thy glassy floods; -- while o'er the globe To spread thy stores metallic, this rude yell Drowns the wild woodland song, and breaks the Poet's spell. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...TO IRON-FOUNDERS AND OTHERS by GORDON BOTTOMLEY FACTORY CHIMNEYS by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER THE AGE OF STEEL by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER THE FACTORY TOWN by ERNEST CHARLES JONES VERSES ON HEARING THAT AN AIRY AND PLEASANT SITUATION .. NEW BUILDINGS by MARIA LOGAN THE CHESTNUT TREE by ROYALL TYLER AN OLD CAT'S DYING SOLILOQUY by ANNA SEWARD ELEGY WRITTEN AT THE SEA-SIDE .. ADDRESSED TO HONORIA SNEYD by ANNA SEWARD |
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