O vale and lake, within your mountain-urn Smiling so tranquilly, and set so deep! Oft doth your dreamy loveliness return, Coloring the tender shadows of my sleep With light Elysian: -- for the hues that steep Your shores in melting luster, seem to float On golden clouds from spirit-lands remote, Isles of the blest; -- and in our memory keep Their place with holiest harmonies: -- Fair scene, Most loved by evening and her dewy star! Oh! ne'er may man, with touch unhallowed, jar The perfect music of the charm serene! Still, still unchanged, may @3one@1 sweet region wear Smiles that subdue the soul to love, and tears, and prayer! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...DARKNESS IS THINNING by GREGORY I SONNET, WRITTEN IN JANUARY 1817 by JOHN KEATS THE HOUSE OF LIFE: 26. MID-RAPTURE by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI FAREWELL, UNKIST by THOMAS WYATT THE BIRDS: THE WEDDING CHANT by ARISTOPHANES FIRST VOYAGE OF COLUMBUS by JOANNA BAILLIE THE SPINNER by CLARA DOTY BATES |