Be the proud Thames of trade the busy mart! Arun! to thee will other praise belong; Dear to the lover's, and the mourner's heart, And ever sacred to the sons of song! Thy banks romantic hopeless Love shall seek, Where o'er the rocks the mantling bindwith flaunts; And Sorrow's drooping form and faded cheek Choose on thy willow'd shore her lonely haunts! Banks! which inspired thy Otway's plaintive strain! Wilds! -- whose lorn echoes learn'd the deeper tone Of Collins' powerful shell! yet once again Another poet -- Hayley is thine own! Thy classic stream anew shall hear a lay, Bright as its waves, and various as its way! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE UNCERTAINTY PRINCIPLE by JAMES GALVIN ON THE DEATH OF JOSEPH RODMAN DRAKE by FITZ-GREENE HALLECK THE GHOSTS OF THE BUFFALOES by NICHOLAS VACHEL LINDSAY IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 101 by ALFRED TENNYSON THE WINDOW; OR, THE SONG OF THE WRENS: MARRIAGE MORNING by ALFRED TENNYSON |