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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
CHAUCER AND WINDSOR, by THOMAS CAMPBELL Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Long shalt thou flourish, windsor! Bodying forth Last Line: Fresh beings fraught with truth's imperishable hue. Subject(s): Chaucer, Geoffrey (1342-1400); Windsor Castle | |||
LONG shalt thou flourish, Windsor! bodying forth Chivalric times, and long shall live around Thy Castle -- the old oaks of British birth, Whose knarled roots, tenacious and profound, As with a lion's talons grasp the ground. But should thy towers in ivied ruin rot, There's one, thine inmate once, whose strain renowned Would interdict thy name to be forgot; For Chaucer loved thy bowers and trode this very spot. Chaucer! our Helicon's first fountain-stream, Our morning star of song -- that led the way To welcome the long-after coming beam Of Spenser's light and Shakspeare's perfect day. Old England's fathers live in Chaucer's lay, As if they ne'er had died. He grouped and drew Their likeness with a spirit of life so gay, That still they live and breathe in Fancy's view, Fresh beings fraught with truth's imperishable hue. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...UNDER HOUSE ARREST IN WINDSOR by HENRY HOWARD THE CURFEW TOWER by ROBERT SEYMOUR BRIDGES VERSES WRITTEN AFTER FACING WINDSOR CASTLE by THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER BATTLE OF THE BALTIC by THOMAS CAMPBELL DOWNFALL OF POLAND [FALL OF WARSAW, 1794] by THOMAS CAMPBELL EXILE OF ERIN by THOMAS CAMPBELL FREEDOM AND LOVE by THOMAS CAMPBELL HALLOWED GROUND by THOMAS CAMPBELL HOHENLINDEN by THOMAS CAMPBELL LORD ULLIN'S DAUGHTER by THOMAS CAMPBELL NAPOLEON AND THE BRITISH [OR ENGLISH] SAILOR [BOY] by THOMAS CAMPBELL |
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