THY friendly greetings open wide my breast, And the dark chambers of my heart unbar; Home visions greet me like some radiant star, And magic pinions fan me into rest. Once more the Rhine flows by me, on its crest Of waters mount and castle mirror'd are; On vine-clad hills gold clusters gleam afar, Vine-dressers climb, while shoot the flow'rets blest. Could I but see thee, truest friend of all, Who still dost link thyself to me, as clings The ivy green around a crumbling wall! Could I but be with thee, and to thy song In silence listen, while the redbreast sings, And the Rhine's waters softly flow along! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ELEONORA; A PANEGYRICAL POEM by JOHN DRYDEN LINCOLN by NICHOLAS VACHEL LINDSAY SONNET: 24. THE STREET by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL LAYS OF FRANCE: SONG (2) by MARIE DE FRANCE FIREFLY; A SONG by ELIZABETH MADOX ROBERTS SONG OF THE PILGRIMS [SEPTEMBER 16, 1620] by THOMAS COGSWELL UPHAM |