Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE TEMPLE GARDEN, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The fountain's low singing is heard in the wind Last Line: Where sweep those dark branches of shadowy green! Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening | ||||||||
THE fountain's low singing is heard in the wind, Like a melody bringing sweet fancies to mind; Away in the distance is heard the far sound From the streets of the city that compass it round. Like the echo of mountains, or ocean's deep call: Yet that fountain's low singing is heard over all. The turf and the terrace slope down to the tide Of the Thames, that sweeps onwards a world at its side; And dark the horizon with mast and with sail Of the thousand tall ships that have weather'd the gale: While beyond the arched bridge the old abbey appears, Where England has garnered -- the glories of years. There are lights in the casement -- how weary the ray That asks from the night time the toils of the day! I fancy I see the brow bent o'er the page, Whose youth wears the paleness and wrinkles of age: What struggles, what hopes, what despair may have been, Where sweep those dark branches of shadowy green! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...NOVEMBER GARDEN: AN ELEGY by ANDREW HUDGINS AN ENGLISH GARDEN IN AUSTRIA (SEEN AFTER DER ROSENKAVALIER) by RANDALL JARRELL ACROSS THE BROWN RIVER by GALWAY KINNELL A DESERTED GARDEN by GEORGE LAWRENCE ANDREWS NOT THE SWEET CICELY OF GERARDES HERBALL by MARGARET AVISON AN OLD GARDEN by HERBERT BASHFORD CALYPSO WATCHING THE OCEAN by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON |
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