Classic and Contemporary Poetry
VERSES ON HEARING THAT AN AIRY AND PLEASANT SITUATION .. NEW BUILDINGS, by MARIA LOGAN First Line: There was a time! That time the muse bewails Last Line: And give youth, ease and health to thy enfeebling arms. Subject(s): Industrial Revolution; Leeds, England; Nature | ||||||||
THERE was a time! that time the Muse bewails, When Sunny Hill enjoyed refreshing gales; When Flora sported in its fragrant bowers, And strewed with liberal hand her sweetest flowers! Now sable vapours, pregnant with disease, Clog the light pinions of the southern breeze; Each verdant plant assumes a dusky hue, And sooty atoms taint the morning dew. No more the lily rears her spotless head, Health, verdure, beauty, fragrance, all are fled: Sulphureous clouds deform the rising day, Nor own the power of Sol's meridian ray; While sickly damps, from Aire's polluted stream, Quench the pure radiance of his parting beam. These are thy triumphs, Commerce! -- these thy spoils! Yet sordid mortals glory in their toils, Spurn the pure joys which simple Nature yields, Her breezy hills, dark groves, and verdant fields; With cold indifference view her blooming charms, And give youth, ease and health to thy enfeebling arms. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...INTERRUPTED MEDITATION by ROBERT HASS TWO VIEWS OF BUSON by ROBERT HASS THE FATALIST: HOME by LYN HEJINIAN WRITING IS AN AID TO MEMORY: 17 by LYN HEJINIAN LET US GATHER IN A FLOURISHING WAY by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA IN MICHAEL ROBINS?ÇÖS CLASS MINUS ONE by HICOK. BOB BREADTH. CIRCLE. DESERT. MONARCH. MONTH. WISDOM by JOHN HOLLANDER VARIATIONS: 16 by CONRAD AIKEN UNHOLY SONNET 13 by MARK JARMAN |
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