Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, SONNETS ON EMINENT CHARACTERS: 7. TO W.L. BOWLES (REVISED VERSION), by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE


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SONNETS ON EMINENT CHARACTERS: 7. TO W.L. BOWLES (REVISED VERSION), by                 Poet Analysis     Poet's Biography
First Line: My heart has thanked thee, bowles! For those soft strains
Last Line: Moved on the darkness of the unformed deep.
Variant Title(s): To The Rev. W.l. Bowles (second Version)
Subject(s): Bowles, William Lisle (1762-1850)


My heart has thanked thee, Bowles! for those soft strains
Whose sadness soothes me, like the murmuring
Of wild-bees in the sunny showers of spring!
For hence not callous to the mourner's pains
Through Youth's gay prime and thornless paths I went:
And when the mightier throes of mind began,
And drove me forth, a thought-bewildered man,
Their mild and manliest melancholy lent
A mingled charm, such as the pang consigned
To slumber, though the big tear it renewed;
Bidding a strange mysterious Pleasure brood
Over the wavy and tumultuous mind,
As the great Spirit erst with plastic sweep
Moved on the darkness of the unformed deep.





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