Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SONNETS ON THE SCENERY OF THE TWEED: 2. DRYBURGH ABBEY, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poet's Biography First Line: Beneath, tweed murmur'd 'mid the forests green Last Line: To give their whole lives blamelessly to god! Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Tweed (river), England And Scotland | ||||||||
BENEATH, Tweed murmur'd 'mid the forests green: And through thy beech-tree and laburnum boughs, A solemn ruin, lovely in repose, Dryburgh! thine ivy'd walls were greyly seen: Thy court is now a garden, where the flowers Expand in silent beauty, and the bird, Flitting from arch to arch, alone is heard To cheer with song the melancholy bowers. Yet did a solemn pleasure fill the soul, As through thy shadowy cloistral cells we trode, To think, hoar pile! that once thou wert the abode Of men, who could to solitude control Their hopesyea! from Ambition's pathways stole, To give their whole lives blamelessly to God! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...SONNETS ON THE SCENERY OF THE TWEED: 1. WARK CASTLE by DAVID MACBETH MOIR SONNETS ON THE SCENERY OF THE TWEED: 3. MELROSE ABBEY by DAVID MACBETH MOIR SONNETS ON THE SCENERY OF THE TWEED: 4. ABBOTSFORD by DAVID MACBETH MOIR SONNETS ON THE SCENERY OF THE TWEED: 5. NIDPATH CASTLE by DAVID MACBETH MOIR SONNETS ON THE SCENERY OF THE TWEED: 6. 'THE BUSH ABOON TRAQUAIR' by DAVID MACBETH MOIR OLD BORDER RHYME ABOUT THE RIVERS TWEED AND TILL by UNKNOWN THE RUSTIC LAD'S LAMENT IN THE TOWN by DAVID MACBETH MOIR |
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