Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
Ireland: Vol. V. 1876–79. | | | | Rosanna | | Lines Written for the Album at Rosanna | | Felicia Hemans (1793–1835) |
| | | | A beautiful place in the county of Wicklow, formerly the abode of the authoress of “Psyche.” |
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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, | 5 |
| Whence the bright stream of song in tear-drops flowed. | |
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| 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, | 10 |
| Through the soul’s depths in holy silence felt,— | |
| A spell to raise, to chasten, and to melt! | | | |
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