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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TO A DEAF AND DUMB LITTLE GIRL, by DAVID HARTLEY COLERIDGE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: Like a loose island on the wide expanse
Last Line: God must be with her in her solitude.
Alternate Author Name(s): Coleridge, Hartley
Subject(s): Deafness
First Line: Like a loose island on the wide expanse
Last Line: God must be with her in her solitude.
Alternate Author Name(s): Coleridge, Hartley
Subject(s): Deafness
LIKE a loose island on the wide expanse,
Unconscious floating on the fickle sea,
Herself her all, she lives in privacy;
Her waking life as lonely as a trance,
Doom'd to behold the universal dance,
And never hear the music which expounds
The solemn step, coy slide, the merry bounds,
The vague mute language of the countenance.
In vain for her I smooth my antic rhyme;
She cannot hear it, all her little being
Concentred in her solitary seeing --
What can she know of beauteous or sublime?
And yet methinks she looks so calm and good,
God must be with her in her solitude.
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