Tintern Abbey

I really like ‘The Romantic’ Poets such as Byron and Wordsworth. So when sis said we were staying near Tintern Abbey I just had to go visit, as one of my favourite Wordsworth poems was entitled Tintern Abbey. Even with all the restorative work going on, it is still an impressive and picturesque place. Absolutely loved wondering around the ruins with Wordsworth running through my head :-) .

Here is the first bit of the poem ( too long to put all of it )

Five years have past; five summers, with the length
Of five long winters! and again I hear
These waters, rolling from their mountain-springs
With a soft inland murmur.—Once again
Do I behold these steep and lofty cliffs,
That on a wild secluded scene impress
Thoughts of more deep seclusion; and connect
The landscape with the quiet of the sky.
The day is come when I again repose
Here, under this dark sycamore, and view
These plots of cottage-ground, these orchard-tufts,
Which at this season, with their unripe fruits,
Are clad in one green hue, and lose themselves
'Mid groves and copses. Once again I see
These hedge-rows, hardly hedge-rows, little lines
Of sportive wood run wild: these pastoral farms,
Green to the very door; and wreaths of smoke
Sent up, in silence, from among the trees!
With some uncertain notice, as might seem
Of vagrant dwellers in the houseless woods,
Or of some Hermit's cave, where by his fire
The Hermit sits alone.