Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE VALE OF LONSDALE, LANCASHIRE, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I could no tdwell here, it is all too fair Last Line: Between the placid scene, and its unrest. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Country Life; Lancashire, England | ||||||||
I could not dwell here, it is all too fair, Too sunny, too luxuriant; those green fields, With the rich shadows of their old oak trees, Or the more graceful sweep of the light ash; Fields where the skylark builds amid the grass, Trees where the thrush's nest is on the boughs; Those human dwellings, looking peace at least, In gardens, with their growth of cultured flowers; The quiet winding of that tideless stream, Whose very movement is repose, whose waves Are rarely stirred save by the falling rain, Which comes when sunshine asks relief from showers; I could not dwell here, it is far too fair, For my heart feels the contrast all too much, Between the placid scene, and its unrest. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...A LANCASHIRE DIALOGUE, OCCASIONED BY A PREACHER WITHOUT NOTES by JOHN BYROM TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 4. A LANCASHIRE MILL-HAND by EDWARD CARPENTER FURNESS ABBEY; IN THE VALE OF NIGHTSHADE, LANCASHIRE by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON ON STONES HOUSE, TODMORDEN, NEAR ROCHDALE, LANCASHIRE by UNKNOWN TOMB OF THOMAS MORLEY, D. 1566; STAINING, LANCASHIRE by UNKNOWN CALYPSO WATCHING THE OCEAN by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON FELICIA HEMANS by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON THE CASTLE OF CHILLON by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON THE FACTORY; 'TIS AN ACCURSED THING! by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON THE FEMALE CONVICT by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON THE MARRIAGE VOW by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON A CHILD SCREENING A DOVE FROM A HAWK, BY STEWARDSON by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON |
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