Classic and Contemporary Poetry
LOCALITIES OF BURNS, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poet's Biography First Line: When the bright crescent gleam'd o'er hill and dale Last Line: As though she look'd to be miscounted still. Subject(s): Burns, Robert (1759-1796); Poetry & Poets | ||||||||
When the bright crescent gleam'd o'er hill and dale We saw the poet's lowly place of birth, The Kirk, erewhile the scene of fiendish mirth, The brig that parted Maggie and her tail. We saw his bust, we saw the cenotaph, Which on the skirts of that fair garden stands, And Tam o'Shanter with his soundless laugh Over his empty cup and stony hands - All these were present, but the bard was gone, No more to tune his pipe on plain or hill, Nor multiply the moon from Willie's mill. But oh! how fondly still that crescent moon Hung with her golden horns o'er bonnie Doon, As though she look'd to be miscounted still. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ENVY OF OTHER PEOPLE'S POEMS by ROBERT HASS THE NINETEENTH CENTURY AS A SONG by ROBERT HASS THE FATALIST: TIME IS FILLED by LYN HEJINIAN OXOTA: A SHORT RUSSIAN NOVEL: CHAPTER 192 by LYN HEJINIAN LET ME TELL YOU WHAT A POEM BRINGS by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA JUNE JOURNALS 6/25/88 by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA FOLLOW ROZEWICZ by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA HAVING INTENDED TO MERELY PICK ON AN OIL COMPANY, THE POEM GOES AWRY by HICOK. BOB HER FIRST-BORN by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER |
|