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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS: PART 3: 24. CONFIRMATION (CONTINUED), by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: I saw a mother's eye intensely bent
Last Line: The summer-leaf had faded, passed to heaven.
Subject(s): Sacraments
First Line: I saw a mother's eye intensely bent
Last Line: The summer-leaf had faded, passed to heaven.
Subject(s): Sacraments
I SAW a Mother's eye intensely bent
Upon a Maiden trembling as she knelt;
In and for whom the pious Mother felt
Things that we judge of by a light too faint:
Tell, if ye may, some star-crowned Muse, or Saint!
Tell what rushed in, from what she was relieved --
Then, when her Child the hallowing touch received,
And such vibration through the Mother went
That tears burst forth amain. Did gleams appear?
Opened a vision of that blissful place
Where dwells a Sister-child? And was power given
Part of her lost One's glory back to trace
Even to this Rite? For thus 'She' knelt, and, ere
The summer-leaf had faded, passed to Heaven.
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