The Woodland Brook
Letitia Elizabeth Landon 1802 (Chelsea) – 1838 (Cape Coast)
Thou art flowing, thou art flowing,
Oh, small and silvery brook;
The rushes by thee growing,
And with a patient look
The pale narcissus o’er thee bends
Like one who asks in vain for friends.
I bring not back my childhood,
Sweet comrade of its hours;
The music of the wild wood,
The colour of the flowers;
They do not bring again the dream
That haunted me beside thy stream.
When black-lettered old romances
Made a world for me alone;
Oh, days of lovely fancies,
Are ye for ever flown?
Ye are fled, sweet, vague, and vain,
So I cannot dream again.
I have left a feverish pillow
For thy soothing song;
Alas, each fairy billow
An image bears along,
Look where I will, I only see
One face too much beloved by me.
In vain my heart remembers
What pleasure used to be,
My past thoughts are but embers
Consumed by love for thee.
I wish to love thee less—and feel
A deeper fondness o’er me steal.
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Submitted by Madeleine Quinn on March 01, 2020
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | ABABCC DEDEFF XGXGXX HIHIJJ EJEJKK |
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 904 |
Words | 168 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 6, 6, 6, 6 |
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