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Anna Seward (Анна Сьюард)


Sonnet 86. Pride of Ierne's Sea-encircled bound


 TO THE LAKE OF KILLARNEY[1].

Pride of Ierne's Sea-encircled bound,
    Rival of all Britannia's Naiads boast,
    Magnificent Killarney!—from thy coast
    Tho' mountains rise with noblest woods embrown'd;
Tho' ten-voiced Echos send the cannon's sound
    In thunders bursting the vast rocks around,
    Till startled Wonder and Delight exhaust
    In countless repercussion—Isles embost
Upon thy liquid glass; their bloomy veil
    Sorbus and ārbutus;—yet not for thee
    So keenly wakes our local ecstacy,
As o'er the narrow, barren, silent Dale,
    Where deeply sleeps, rude circling Rocks among,
    The Love-devoted Fount enamour'd Petrarch sung.

1: This Sonnet was written on having read a description of the Killarney Scenery immediately after that of the Vale of Vaucluse, uncultivated and comparatively desert as the latter has been through more than the present Century.



Anna Seward's other poems:
  1. Sonnet 36. Now on hills, rocks, and streams, and vales, and plains
  2. Sonnet 65. Marcellus, since the ardors of my strain
  3. Sonnet 56. What bashful wildness in those crystal eyes
  4. Sonnet 98. Since my griev'd mind some energy regains
  5. Sonnet 32. Behold him now his genuine colours wear


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