Classic and Contemporary Poetry
RETIREMENT, by HENRY KIRKE WHITE Poet's Biography First Line: Give me a cottage on some cambrian wild Last Line: Shall make sweet music o'er my lonely grave. Subject(s): Retirement | ||||||||
Give me a cottage on some Cambrian wild, Where, far from cities, I may spend my days: And, by the beauties of the scene beguiled, May pity man's pursuits, and shun his ways. While on the rock I mark the browsing goat, List to the mountain torrent's distant noise, Or the hoarse bittern's solitary note, I shall not want the world's delusive joys; But, with my little scrip, my book, my lyre, Shall think my lot complete, nor covet more; And when, with time, shall wane the vital fire, I'll raise my pillow on the desert shore, And lay me down to rest where the wild wave Shall make sweet music o'er my lonely grave. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE RETIREMENT by IRVING FELDMAN THOUGHTS OF A RETIRED DIAMOND CUTTER by ELEANOR WILNER SWINEHERD by EILEAN NI CHUILLEANAIN FAREWELL TO ARMS by GEORGE PEELE THE LAMENTATION OF THE OLD PENSIONER (1) by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS THE LAMENTATION OF THE OLD PENSIONER (2) by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS PAX BRITANNICA by ALFRED AUSTIN THE EARLY PRIMROSE by HENRY KIRKE WHITE |
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