Picturesque Ireland : a literary and artistic delineation of the natural scenery, remarkable places, historical antiquities, public buildings, ancient abbeys, towers, castles, and other romantic and attractive features of Ireland . session of those woods in which all poets de-light, Rosanna is still more famous as the home of a lovely and gifted Irishpoetess, Mary Tighe, who here wrote her beautiful and imaginative poem Psyche,founded on the classic allegory of Love and the Soul. It is written in the Spen-serian stanza, and is characterized by elegance, classical taste, a wealth of gracefulima
Picturesque Ireland : a literary and artistic delineation of the natural scenery, remarkable places, historical antiquities, public buildings, ancient abbeys, towers, castles, and other romantic and attractive features of Ireland . session of those woods in which all poets de-light, Rosanna is still more famous as the home of a lovely and gifted Irishpoetess, Mary Tighe, who here wrote her beautiful and imaginative poem Psyche,founded on the classic allegory of Love and the Soul. It is written in the Spen-serian stanza, and is characterized by elegance, classical taste, a wealth of gracefulimagery, and a brilliancy of coloring rarely excelled. Chambers says that sheevinced a more passionate and refined imagination than any of her tunefulsisterhood. Was not Tighe an angel, exclaims one of the critics of theNodes AmbrosiancB, if ever there was one on earth—beautiful, airy, and evanes-cent as her own immortal Psyche? Lovely and accomplished Mrs. Tighe inyouth had mixed with the gay world, but extreme sensibility, crowned by ahappy marriage, led her to retirement. She was an invalid for several-years, andMoore has made her early death the subject of the exquisite lyric, I saw thyform in youthful pride, concluding:. Htad of Dtvil s Glen. WICKLOW. 99 If souls could always dwell above, Thou neer hadst left that sphere ;Or could we keep the souls we love, We neer had lost thee here, Mary !Though many a gifted mind we meet, Though fairest forms we live with them is far less sweet Than to remember thee, Mary. Rosanna, Avondale, Glenmalure and the Vartry naturally Inspired the expres-sion of Mrs. Tighes admiration. The chestnut bowers of the former were nota-ble in her day, at the beginning ofthe century, and their broad shadows- to-day are evidence of ancient ances- try and of a long reign of care andpeace in this happy valley. Convenient to the Devils Glen, andon its northeast is the Glen of Dunran,which exhibits features of interest, es-pecially when we learn that
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