Farewell parental scenes! a sad farewell! To you my grateful heart still fondly clings, Tho' fluttering round on Fancy's burnish'd wings Her tales of future Joy Hope loves to tell. Adieu, adieu! ye much lov'd cloisters pale! Ah! would those happy days return again, When 'neath your arches, free from every stain, I heard of guilt and wonder'd at the tale! Dear haunts! where oft my simple lays I sang, Listening meanwhile the echoings of my feet, Lingering I quit you, with as great a pang, As when erewhile, my weeping childhood, torn By early sorrow from my native seat, Mingled its tears with hers -- my widow'd Parent lorn. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...HYMN TO INTELLECTUAL BEAUTY by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY BEFORE PARTING by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE PSALME 137 by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE TO HIS WORTHY FRIEND AND INGENIOUS FRIEND, THE AUTHOR by WILLIAM BROWNE (1591-1643) DEAF AND DUMB; A GROUP BY WOOLNER by ROBERT BROWNING TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 4. IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM LIBRARY by EDWARD CARPENTER HERE AND NOW by CATHERINE CATER |