Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS: PART 3: 38. NEW CHURCHES, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: But liberty, and triumphs on the main Last Line: That vale or hill prolongs or multiplies! Subject(s): Churches; Cathedrals | ||||||||
BUT liberty, and triumphs on the Main, And laurelled armies, not to be withstood -- What serve they? if, on transitory good Intent, and sedulous of abject gain, The State (ah, surely not preserved in vain!) Forbear to shape due channels which the Flood Of sacred truth may enter -- till it brood O'er the wide realm, as o'er the Egyptian plain The all-sustaining Nile. No more -- the time Is conscious of her want; through England's bounds, In rival haste, the wished-for Temples rise! I hear their sabbath bells' harmonious chime Float on the breeze -- the heavenliest of all sounds That vale or hill prolongs or multiplies! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...VIRGIN IN GLASS by JOSEPHINE JACOBSEN THE HOUR BETWEEN DOG AND WOLF: 3. FEEDING THE RABBITS by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR EXPLICATION OF AN IMAGINARY TEXT by JAMES GALVIN DOMESDAY BOOK: FATHER WHIMSETT by EDGAR LEE MASTERS HALF-AND-HALF by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE AT THE CHURCH DOOR by GEORGE SANTAYANA A JEWISH FAMILY; IN A SMALL VALLEY OPPOSITE ST. GOAR by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH |
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