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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS: PART 2: 20. MONASTIC VOLUPTUOUSNESS, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: Yet more, - round many a convent's blazing fire
Last Line: "whose votive burthen is -- ""our kingdom's here!"
First Line: Yet more, - round many a convent's blazing fire
Last Line: "whose votive burthen is -- ""our kingdom's here!"
YET more, -- round many a Convent's blazing fire
Unhallowed threads of revelry are spun;
There Venus sits disguised like a Nun, --
While Bacchus, clothed in semblance of a Friar,
Pours out his choicest beverage high and higher
Sparkling, until it cannot choose but run
Over the bowl, whose silver lip hath won
An instant kiss of masterful desire --
To stay the precious waste. Through every brain
The domination of the sprightly juice
Spreads high conceits to madding Fancy dear,
Till the arched roof, with resolute abuse
Of its grave echoes, swells a choral strain,
Whose votive burthen is -- "OUR KINGDOM'S HERE!"
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