| William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. The Book of Georgian Verse. 1909. | | | | Glengariff, II | | By Sir Aubrey de Vere (1788–1846) |
| | | A SUN-BURST on the Bay! Turn and behold! | |
| The restless waves, resplendent in their glory, | |
| Sweep glittering past yon purpled promontory, | |
| Bright as Apollo’s breastplate. Bathed in gold, | |
| Yon bastioned islet gleams. Thin mists are rolled, | 5 |
| Translucent, through each glen. A mantle hoary | |
| Veils those peaked hills shapely as e’er in story | |
| Delphic, or Alpine, or Vesuvian old, | |
| Minstrels have sung. From rock and headland proud | |
| The wild wood spreads its arms around the bay: | 10 |
| The manifold mountain cones, now dark, now bright, | |
| Now seen, now lost, alternate from rich light | |
| To spectral shade; and each dissolving cloud | |
| Reveals new mountains while it floats away. | | | | |
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