Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS: PART 1: 39. PAPAL DOMINION, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH


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ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS: PART 1: 39. PAPAL DOMINION, by                 Poet Analysis     Poet's Biography
First Line: Unless to peter's chair the viewless wind
Last Line: Or smooth his front, our world is in his hand!
Subject(s): Popes; Papacy


UNLESS to Peter's Chair the viewless wind
Must come and ask permission when to blow,
What further empire would it have? for now
A ghostly Domination, unconfined
As that by dreaming Bards to Love assigned,
Sits there in sober truth -- to raise the low,
Perplex the wise, the strong to overthrow;
Through earth and heaven to bind and to unbind! --
Resist -- the thunder quails thee! -- crouch -- rebuff
Shall be thy recompence! from land to land
The ancient thrones of Christendom are stuff
For occupation of a magic wand,
And 'tis the Pope that wields it: -- whether rough
Or smooth his front, our world is in his hand!






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