Nature

Verses Written After Seeing Windsor Castle

by Thomas Warton the Elder c. 1688–1745

From Specimens with Memoirs of the Less-known British Poets, ed. George Gilfillan (1860)

Nature

From beauteous Windsor's high and storied halls,
Where Edward's chiefs start from the glowing walls,
To my low cot, from ivory beds of state,
Pleased I return, unenvious of the great.
So the bee ranges o'er the varied scenes
Of corn, of heaths, of fallows, and of greens;
Pervades the thicket, soars above the hill,
Or murmurs to the meadow's murmuring rill;
Now haunts old hollowed oaks, deserted cells,
Now seeks the low vale-lily's silver bells;
Sips the warm fragrance of the greenhouse bowers,
And tastes the myrtle and the citron flowers;--
At length returning to the wonted comb,
Prefers to all his little straw-built home.

This seems sweet and simple poetry.

MLA

Elder, Thomas Warton the. “Verses Written After Seeing Windsor Castle.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/warton_t/0/.

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Elder, Thomas Warton the. “Verses Written After Seeing Windsor Castle.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/warton_t/0/.

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