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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SONNETS ON EMINENT CHARACTERS: 7. TO W.L. BOWLES (1ST VERSION), by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: My heart has thank'd thee, bowles! For those soft strains
Last Line: Mov'd on the darkness of the formless deep!
Subject(s): Bowles, William Lisle (1762-1850)
First Line: My heart has thank'd thee, bowles! For those soft strains
Last Line: Mov'd on the darkness of the formless deep!
Subject(s): Bowles, William Lisle (1762-1850)
My heart has thank'd thee, BOWLES! for those soft strains,
That, on the still air floating, tremblingly
Wak'd in me Fancy, Love, and Sympathy!
For hence, not callous to a Brother's pains
Thro' Youth's gay prime and thornless paths I went;
And, when the darker day of life began,
And I did roam, a thought-bewilder'd man
Thy kindred Lays an healing solace lent,
Each lonely pang with dreamy joys combin'd,
And stole from vain REGRET her scorpion stings;
While shadowy PLEASURE, with mysterious wings,
Brooded the wavy and tumultuous mind,
Like that great Spirit, who with plastic sweep
Mov'd on the darkness of the formless Deep!
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