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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TO THE MEMORY OF THOMAS HOOD, by BARTHOLOMEW SIMMONS First Line: Take back into thy bosom, earth Last Line: Shall hover, unforgetting. Subject(s): Hood, Thomas (1799-1845); Writing & Writers | |||
TAKE back into thy bosom, earth, This joyous, May-eyed morrow, The gentlest child that ever mirth Gave to be reared by sorrow! 'T is hard -- while rays half green, half gold, Through vernal bowers are burning, And streams their diamond mirrors hold To Summer's face returning -- To say we're thankful that his sleep Shall nevermore be lighter, In whose sweet-tongued companionship Stream, bower, and beam grow brighter! But all the more intensely true His soul gave out each feature Of elemental love, -- each hue And grace of golden nature, -- The deeper still beneath it all Lurked the keen jags of anguish; The more the laurels clasped his brow Their poison made it languish. Seemed it that, like the nightingale Of his own mournful singing, The tenderer would his song prevail While most the thorn was stinging. So never to the desert-worn Did fount bring freshness deeper Than that his placid rest this morn Has brought the shrouded sleeper. That rest may lap his weary head Where charnels choke the city, Or where, mid woodlands, by his bed The wren shall wake its ditty; But near or far, while evening's star Is dear to heart's regretting, Around that spot admiring thought Shall hover, unforgetting. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE CELL, SELECTION by LYN HEJINIAN OXOTA: A SHORT RUSSIAN NOVEL: CHAPTER 126: THE DOUBTING MAN by LYN HEJINIAN WAKING THE MORNING DREAMLESS AFTER LONG SLEEP by JANE HIRSHFIELD COMPULSIVE QUALIFICATIONS by RICHARD HOWARD DEUTSCH DURCH FREUD by RANDALL JARRELL |
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