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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
CHANGES IN THE TEMPLE, by LOUISE IMOGEN GUINEY Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: The cry is at thy gates, thou darling ground
Last Line: Echo, and ivy, and the loitering moon.
Subject(s): London
First Line: The cry is at thy gates, thou darling ground
Last Line: Echo, and ivy, and the loitering moon.
Subject(s): London
THE cry is at thy gates, thou darling ground,
Again; for oft ere now thy children went
Beggared and wroth, and parting greeting sent
Some red old alley with a dial crowned;
Some house of honor, in a glory bound
With lives and deaths of spirits excellent;
Some tree rude-taken from his kingly tent
Hard by a little fountain's friendly sound.
O for Virginius' hand, if only that
Maintain the whole, and spoil these spoilings soon!
Better the scowling Strand should lose, alas,
Her peopled oasis, and where it was
All mournful in the cleared quadrangle sat
Echo, and ivy, and the loitering moon.
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