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Subject: STAFFA (ISLAND), SCOTLAND
Matches Found: 4

CAVE OF STAFFA (1), by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We saw, but surely, in the motley crowd
Last Line: Has deigned to work as if with human art!
Subject(s): Caves; Staffa (island), Scotland; Caverns


CAVE OF STAFFA (2), by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ye shadowy beings, that have rights and claims
Last Line: Yon light shapes forth a bard, that shade a chief.
Subject(s): Caves; Staffa (island), Scotland; Caverns


CAVE OF STAFFA; AFTER THE CROWD HAD DEPARTED, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Thanks for the lessons of this spot - fit school
Last Line: Of softest music some reponsive place.
Subject(s): Caves; Staffa (island), Scotland; Caverns


FLOWERS ON THE TOP OF THE PILLARS AT ENTRANCE TO THE CAVE, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Hope smiled when your nativity was cast
Last Line: As the supreme artificer ordained.
Subject(s): Caves; Staffa (island), Scotland; Caverns