English Poetry. Thomas Warton. Written at Stonehenge. Томас Уортон.

Thomas Warton (Томас Уортон)

Written at Stonehenge

Thou noblest monument of Albion's isle!
Whether by Merlin's aid, from Scythia's shore,
To Amber's fatal plain Pendragon bore,
Huge frame of giant-hands, the mighty pile
T' entomb his Britons slain by Hengist's guile:
Or Druid priests, sprinkled with human gore,
Taught 'mid thy massy maze their mystic lore:
Or Danish chiefs, enrich'd with savage spoil,
To Victory's idol vast, an unhewn shrine,
Rear'd the rude heap: or, in thy hallow'd round,
Repose the kings of Brutus' genuine line;
Or here those kings in solemn state were crown'd:
Studious to trace thy wondrous origine,
We muse on many an ancient tale renown'd.

Thomas Warton’s other poems:

1. While Summer Suns O’Er the Gay Prospect Play’D
2. Verses on Sir Joshua Reynolds’s Painted Window at New-College Oxford
3. The Pleasures of Melancholy
4. О Круглом Столе короля Артура в Уинчестере • On King Arthur’s Round Table at Winchester
5. Ода Сну • Ode to Sleep

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