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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
CHILDHOOD, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: Air sleeps - from strife or stir the clouds.
Last Line: God being with thee when we know it not.
Subject(s): Children; Childhood
First Line: Air sleeps - from strife or stir the clouds.
Last Line: God being with thee when we know it not.
Subject(s): Children; Childhood
AIR sleeps -- from strife or stir the clouds are free;
The holy time is quiet as a nun.
Breathless with adoration; the broad sun
Is sinking down in its tranquillity;
The gentleness of heaven brood's o'er the sea:
But list! the mighty Being is awake,
And doth with his eternal motion make
A sound like thunder -- everlastingly.
Dear child! dear happy girl! if thou appear
Heedless -- untouch'd with awe or serious thought,
Thy nature is not therefore less divine:
Thou liest in Abraham's bosom all the year;
And worshippest at the Temple's inner shrine,
God being with thee when we know it not.
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