Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE CASTLE RUINS, by WILLIAM BARNES Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A happy day at whitsuntide Last Line: The sky wer lightless to their tweil. Subject(s): Castles | ||||||||
A HAPPY day at Whitsuntide, As soon's the zun begun to vall, We all strolled up the steep hill-zide To Meldon, gret an' small; Out where the Castle wall stood high A-mwoldren to the zunny sky. An' there wi' Jenny took a stroll Her youngest sister, Poll, so gay, Bezide John Hind, ah! merry soul, An' mid her wedlock fay; An' at our zides did play an' run My little maid an' smaller son. Above the beaten mwold upsprung The driven doust, a-spreaden light, An' on the new-leaved thorn, a-hung, Wer wool a-quiv'ren white; An' corn, a-sheenen bright, did bow, On slopen Meldon's zunny brow. There, down the roofless wall did glow The zun upon the grassy vloor, An' weakly-wandren winds did blow, Unhindered by a door; An' smokeless now avore the zun Did stan' the ivy-girded tun. My bwoy did watch the daws' bright wings A-flappen vrom their ivy bow'rs; My wife did watch my maid's light springs, Out here an' there vor flow'rs; And John did zee noo tow'rs, the pleace Vor him had only Polly's feace. An' there, of all that pried about The walls, I overlooked em best, An' what o' that? Why, I meade out Noo mwore than all the rest: That there wer woonce the nest of zome That wer a-gone avore we come. When woonce above the tun the smoke Did wreathy blue among the trees, An' down below, the liven vo'k Did tweil as brisk as bees; Or zit wi' weary knees, the while The sky wer lightless to their tweil. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...FOR THE INVESTITURE by CECIL DAY LEWIS THE ROCK OF CASHEL by AUBREY DE VERE THE HAUNTED PALACE by EDGAR ALLAN POE THE CASTLE BY THE SEA by JOHANN LUDWIG UHLAND ODE TO LUDLOW CASTLE by LUCY AIKEN ON SEEING BLENHEIM CASTLE by LUCY AIKEN AN OLD CASTLE by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH MY HIDING PLACE AND ME by BARBARA BROOKS BIXLEY CASTLE GORDON (1) by ROBERT BURNS A WINTER NIGHT by WILLIAM BARNES |
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