Rousseau -- Voltaire -- our Gibbon -- and de Stael -- Leman! these names are worthy of thy shore, Thy shore of names like these! wert thou no more, Their memory thy remembrance would recall: To them thy banks were lovely as to all, But they have made them lovelier, for the lore Of mighty minds doth hallow in the core Of human hearts the ruin of a wall Where dwelt the wise and wondrous; but by @3thee@1 How much more, Lake of Beauty! do we feel, In sweetly gliding o'er thy crystal sea, The wild glow of that not ungentle zeal, Which of the heirs of immortality Is proud, and makes the breath of glory real! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...TO THE IMMORTAL MEMORY OF THE HALIBUT ON WHICH I DINED by WILLIAM COWPER VENICE by JOHN ADDINGTON SYMONDS THE ANNOYER by NATHANIEL PARKER WILLIS THREE PASTORAL ELEGIES: 1 by WILLIAM BASSE THE MOST BEAUTIFUL THING by LOUISA SARAH BEVINGTON |