Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, SOLACE DERIVED FROM BOOKS, by EDWARD MOXON


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SOLACE DERIVED FROM BOOKS, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Hence care, and let me steep my drooping spirit
Last Line: The heart, and burn through shakspeare's matchless page.
Subject(s): Books; Reading


HENCE care, and let me steep my drooping spirit
In streams of poesy, or let me steer
Imagination's bark 'mong bright scenes, where
Mortals immortal fairy-land inherit.
Ah me! that there should be so few to merit
The realized hope of him, who deems
In his youth's spring that life is what it seems,
Till sorrows pierce his soul, and storms deter it
From resting there as erst! Ye visions fair,
Of Genius born, to you I turn, and flee
Far from this world's ungenial apathy;
Too blest, if but awhile I captive share
The presence of such beings as engage
The heart, and burn through Shakspeare's matchless page.





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