The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 20, No. 578, December 1, 1832

Tanfield is a considerable village, situated seven miles from Gateshead, in the county of Durham, and eight miles in a south-west direction from Newcastle-on-Tyne. The above arch is about a mile from the village, and crosses a deep dell, called Causey Burne, down which an insignificant streamlet finds its sinuous course. The site possesses some picturesque beauty, though its silvan pride be
After a season gay and brief,
Condemn'd to fade and flee.
It has much of the poet's bosky bourne, and beside
The huddling brooklet's secret brim,
his pensive mind may feed upon the natural glories of the scene; while, attuned to melancholy,
In hollow music sighing through the glade,
The breeze of autumn strikes the startled ear,
And fancy, pacing through the woodland shade,
Hears in the gust the requiem of the year.
KIRKE WHITE'S Early Poems .