On A Beautiful Landscape

William Lisle Bowles

Beautiful landscape! I could look on thee
For hours,--unmindful of the storm and strife,
And mingled murmurs of tumultuous life.
Here, all is still as fair--the stream, the tree,
The wood, the sunshine on the bank: no tear
No thought of time's swift wing, or closing night
Which comes to steal away the long sweet light,
No sighs of sad humanity are here.

Here is no tint of mortal change--the day
Beneath whose light the dog and peasant-boy
Gambol with look, and almost bark, of joy--
Still seems, though centuries have passed, to stay.
Then gaze again, that shadowed scenes may teach
Lessons of peace and love, beyond all speech. 

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• William Lisle Bowles : On Hearing
• William Lisle Bowles : On The Funeral Of Charles The First
• William Lisle Bowles : On The Funeral Of Charles The First At Night, In St. George's Chapel, Windsor
• William Lisle Bowles : Sonnet: At Dover Cliffs, July 20th 1787
• William Lisle Bowles : Sonnet: At Ostend, July 22nd 1787
• William Lisle Bowles : Sonnet: July 18th 1787
• William Lisle Bowles : Sonnet: Languid, And Sad, And Slow, From Day To Day
• William Lisle Bowles : Sonnet: O Poverty! Though From Thy Haggard Eye
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• William Lisle Bowles : Ii. Written At Bamborough Castle.