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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
CRICHTON CHAPEL, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poet's Biography First Line: How like an image of repose it looks Last Line: To god and heaven, death is the only way! Alternate Author Name(s): Delta | |||
How like an image of repose it looks, That ancient, holy, and sequestered pile! Silence abides in each tree-shaded aisle, And on the grey spire caw the hermit rooks: So absent is the stamp of modern days, That in the quaint carved oak, and oriel stained With saintly legend, to Reflection's gaze The star of Eld seems not yet to have waned. At pensive eventide, when streams the West On moss-greened pediment, and tombstone grey, And spectral Silence pointeth to Decay, How preacheth Wisdom to the conscious breast, Saying, "Each foot that roameth here shall rest:" To God and Heaven, Death is the only way! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...A LOVER TO HIS BETROTHED by DAVID MACBETH MOIR A SHADOW OF TRUTH by DAVID MACBETH MOIR A WOUNDED PTARMIGAN by DAVID MACBETH MOIR ADDRESS TO LITTLE CHILDREN by DAVID MACBETH MOIR AN EVENING SKETCH by DAVID MACBETH MOIR BLOOM AND BLIGHT by DAVID MACBETH MOIR CASA WAPPY; THE CHILD'S PET-NAME, CHOSEN BY HIMSELF by DAVID MACBETH MOIR CASA'S DIRGE by DAVID MACBETH MOIR CHILD'S BURIAL IN SPRING by DAVID MACBETH MOIR CHRISTMAS MUSINGS; ADDRESSED TO INATHE by DAVID MACBETH MOIR DE QUINCEY'S REVENGE; A BALLAD IN THREE FITTES by DAVID MACBETH MOIR |
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