Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell

 For him who struck thy foreign string,
     I ween this heart has ceased to care;
     Then why dost thou such feelings bring
     To my sad spirit—old Guitar?

     It is as if the warm sunlight
     In some deep glen should lingering stay,
     When clouds of storm, or shades of night,
     Have wrapt the parent orb away.

     It is as if the glassy brook
     Should image still its willows fair,
     Though years ago the woodman's stroke
     Laid low in dust their Dryad-hair.

     Even so, Guitar, thy magic tone
     Hath moved the tear and waked the sigh:
     Hath bid the ancient torrent moan,
     Although its very source is dry.