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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
RUINED CHAPEL, by WILLIAM ALLINGHAM Poet's Biography First Line: By the shore, a plot of ground Alternate Author Name(s): Pollex, D.; Walker, Patricius | |||
By the shore, a plot of ground Clips a ruin'd chapel round, Buttress'd with a grassy mound; Where Day and Night and Day go by, And bring no touch of human sound. Washing of the lonely seas, Shaking of the guardian trees, Piping of the salted breeze; Day and' Night and Day go by To the endless tune of these. Or when, as winds and waters keep A hush more dead than any sleep, Still morns to stiller evenings creep, And Day and Night and Day go by; Here the silence is most deep. The empty ruins, lapsed again Into Nature's wide domain Sow themselves with seed ˜nd grain As Day and Night and Day go by; And hoard June's sun and April's rain. Here fresh funeral tears were shed. Now the graves are also dead' ' And suckers from the ash-tree' spread, WhIle Day and Night and Day go by; And stars move calmly overhead. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...HALF-WAKING by WILLIAM ALLINGHAM MARY DONNELLY by WILLIAM ALLINGHAM THE DIRTY OLD MAN by WILLIAM ALLINGHAM THE FAIRIES by WILLIAM ALLINGHAM THE WINDING BANKS OF ERNE; OR, THE EMIGRANT'S ADIEU TO HIS BIRTHPLACE by WILLIAM ALLINGHAM A BURIAL-PLACE by WILLIAM ALLINGHAM A DAY OF DAYS by WILLIAM ALLINGHAM |
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