On this lone island, whose unfruitful breast Feeds but the Summer-shepherd's little flock With scanty herbage from the half-clothed rock, Where osprays, cormorants, and sea-mews rest; Even in a scene so desolate and rude I could with thee for months and years be blest; And of thy tenderness and love possest, Find all my world in this wild solitude! When summer suns these northern seas illume, With thee admire the light's reflected charms, And when drear Winter spreads his cheerless gloom, Still find Elysium in thy shelt'ring arms: For thou to me canst sovereign bliss impart, Thy mind my empire -- and my throne thy heart. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...NAPEOLON'S FAREWELL; FROM THE FRENCH by GEORGE GORDON BYRON THE PARADOX by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR AN ANCIENT TO ANCIENTS by THOMAS HARDY THE MOCKING BIRD by SIDNEY LANIER THE ANNOYER by NATHANIEL PARKER WILLIS AUGUST SUNSET OVER LAKE CHAMPLAIN by FRANK A. BALCH VERSES SUPPOSED TO BE WRITTEN IN A BURIAL-GROUND .. SOCIETY OF FRIENDS by BERNARD BARTON |