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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS: PART 3: 28. VISITATION OF THE SICK, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: The sabbath bells renew the inviting peal
Last Line: With a bad world, and foil the tempter's arts.
Subject(s): Sacraments
First Line: The sabbath bells renew the inviting peal
Last Line: With a bad world, and foil the tempter's arts.
Subject(s): Sacraments
THE Sabbath bells renew the inviting peal;
Glad music! yet there be that, worn with pain
And sickness, listen where they long have lain,
In sadness listen. With maternal zeal
Inspired, the Church sends ministers to kneel
Beside the afflicted; to sustain with prayer,
And soothe the heart confession hath laid bare --
That pardon, from God's throne, may set its seal
On a true Penitent. When breath departs
From one disburthened so, so comforted,
His Spirit Angels greet; and ours be hope
That, if the Sufferer rise from his sick-bed,
Hence he will gain a firmer mind, to cope
With a bad world, and foil the Tempter's arts.
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