Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ELEGIAC SONNET: 82. TO THE SHADE OF BURNS, by CHARLOTTE SMITH Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mute is thy wild harp, now, o bard sublime Last Line: "enjoys with them ""the liberty it loved." Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Charlotte Turner Subject(s): Burns, Robert (1759-1796); Poetry & Poets | ||||||||
Mute is thy wild harp, now, O bard sublime! Who, amid Scotia's mountain solitude, Great Nature taught to "build the lofty rhyme," And even beneath the daily pressure, rude, Of labouring Poverty, thy generous blood, Fired with the love of freedom -- Not subdued Wert thou by thy low fortune: But a time Like this we live in, when the abject chime Of echoing Parasite is best approved, Was not for thee -- Indignantly is fled Thy Noble Spirit; and no longer moved By all the ills o'er which thine heart has bled, Associate worthy of the illustrious dead, Enjoys with them "the Liberty it Loved." | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ENVY OF OTHER PEOPLE'S POEMS by ROBERT HASS THE NINETEENTH CENTURY AS A SONG by ROBERT HASS THE FATALIST: TIME IS FILLED by LYN HEJINIAN OXOTA: A SHORT RUSSIAN NOVEL: CHAPTER 192 by LYN HEJINIAN LET ME TELL YOU WHAT A POEM BRINGS by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA JUNE JOURNALS 6/25/88 by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA FOLLOW ROZEWICZ by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA HAVING INTENDED TO MERELY PICK ON AN OIL COMPANY, THE POEM GOES AWRY by HICOK. BOB ELEGIAC SONNET: 2. WRITTEN AT THE CLOSE OF SPRING by CHARLOTTE SMITH ELEGIAC SONNET: 4. TO THE MOON by CHARLOTTE SMITH ELEGIAC SONNET: 44. WRITTEN IN THE CHURCH YARD AT MIDDLETON IN SUSSEX by CHARLOTTE SMITH |
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