A beautiful place in the county of Wicklow, formerly the the abode of the authoress of "Psyche" [Mrs. Tighe]. O, LIGHTLY tread through these deep chestnut bowers, Where a sweet spirit once in beauty moved! And touch with reverent hand these leaves and flowers, -- Fair things, which well a gentle heart hath loved! A gentle heart, of love and grief the abode, Whence the bright stream of song in tear-drops flowed. And bid its memory sanctify the scene! And let the ideal presence of the dead Float round, and touch the woods with softer green, And o'er the streams a charm, like moonlight, shed, Through the soul's depths in holy silence felt, -- A spell to raise, to chasten, and to melt! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE CANDLE by KATHERINE MANSFIELD KINDNESS TO ANIMALS by JOSEPH ASHBY-STERRY TO CYNTHIA GONE INTO THE COUNTRY by PHILIP AYRES THE TRUIMPH OF ART by JOSEPHINE TURCK BAKER THE VOICE FROM GALILEE by HORATIO (HORATIUS) BONAR TO ROBERT BURNS; AN EPISTLE ON INSTINCT by ROBERT SEYMOUR BRIDGES |