Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
Scotland: Vols. VI–VIII. 1876–79. | | | | Dunolly Castle | | On Revisiting Dunolly Castle | | William Wordsworth (1770–1850) |
| | | THE CAPTIVE bird was gone;—to cliff or moor | |
| Perchance had flown, delivered by the storm; | |
| Or he had pined, and sunk to feed the worm: | |
| Him found we not; but, climbing a tall tower, | |
| There saw, impaved with rude fidelity | 5 |
| Of art mosaic, in a roofless floor, | |
| An eagle with stretched wings, but beamless eye,— | |
| An eagle that could neither wail nor soar. | |
| Effigy of the vanished, (shall I dare | |
| To call thee so?) or symbol of fierce deeds | 10 |
| And of the towering courage which past times | |
| Rejoiced in, take, whate’er thou be, a share, | |
| Not undeserved, of the memorial rhymes | |
| That animate my way where’er it leads! | | | | |
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