They win the goodly Wye, whom strongly she doth stir She therefore is allow’d her leisure and by her Which twixt the Penmenmaur and the Pyreni lies: Who by his conquering sword should all the land surprise, Which everlasting praise to her great name should bring, Of all the rest herein observed special state.įor once the Bards foretold she should produce a King, Made proud by Monmouth’s name appointed her by Fate, When Munno, all this while, that (for her own behoof)įrom this their great recourse had strangely stood aloof, Fosbrooke published an incomplete version of this poem in his British Monachism, vol. Taylor, John, Tintern Abbey and Its Founders Comprising a Revision and Correction of Preceding accounts, with numerous additional Particulars Hitherto Uncollected, Including the Dates of the Various Buildings. Where crystal streames, delightfull runninge,įrom an Harlian manuscript 367, f. The moral is the orerthrowe of the abbyes, the like being attainted by the Puritane which is the wolfe: and the Poletecian which is the Fox, agayst the bushops. The Abbe de L’ile poem about Tintern (according to George Douglas, 1806) Date?Ī tale of Robin Hoode, dialouge wise, beetweene Watt and Jeffry.
The Wikipedia page for Tintern includes a good section on poetry Waters, Ivor, A Chepstow and Tintern Anthology, Published by The Chepstow Society, Chepstow.
Two of the poems attributed to Tintern were written about other Abbeys: Alaric Watt’s poem, first published 1824, was written about Kirkstall Abbey but the lines most reproduced when describing Tintern were Henry Man’s which were written about Llanthony, first published in 1802.
This is by no means a complete anthology on the subject but it includes most of the poetry in tourist’s and guidebook’s accounts of the Wye. Much of the following poetry is about Tintern.
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