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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
DEDICATION. TO -, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: Happy the feeling from the bosom thrown
Last Line: Wilt smile upon this gift with more than mild content!
First Line: Happy the feeling from the bosom thrown
Last Line: Wilt smile upon this gift with more than mild content!
HAPPY the feeling from the bosom thrown
In perfect shape (whose beauty Time shall spare
Though a breath made it) like a bubble blown
For summer pastime into wanton air;
Happy the thought best likened to a stone
Of the sea-beach, when, polished with nice care,
Veins it discovers exquisite and rare,
Which for the loss of that moist gleam atone
That tempted first to gather it. That here,
O chief of Friends! such feelings I present,
To thy regard, with thoughts so fortunate,
Were a vain notion; but the hope is dear,
That thou, if not with partial joy elate,
Wilt smile upon this gift with more than mild content!
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