Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THOUGHTS DURING SICKNESS: 4. REMEMBRANCE OF NATURE, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS


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First Line: O nature! Thou didst rear me for thine own
Last Line: To meet on brighter shores thy majesty unstained.
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Nature; Sickness; Illness


O NATURE! thou didst rear me for thine own,
With thy free singing-birds and mountain brooks;
Feeding my thoughts in primrose-haunted nooks,
With fairy fantasies and wood-dreams lone;
And thou didst teach me every wandering tone
Drawn from thy many-whispering tress and waves,
And guide my steps to founts and sparry caves
And where bright mosses wove thee a rich throne
'Midst the green hills: and now that, far estranged
From all sweet sounds and odours of thy breath,
Fading I lie, within my heart unchanged,
So glows the love of thee, that not for death
Seems that pure passion's fervour -- but ordained
To meet on brighter shores thy majesty unstained.





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