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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SONNETS ON EMINENT CHARACTERS: 11. TO RICHARD SHERIDAN, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: It was some spirit, sheridan! That breathed
Last Line: As erst that elder fiend beneath great michael's sword.
Subject(s): Sheridan, Richard Brinsley (1751-1816)
First Line: It was some spirit, sheridan! That breathed
Last Line: As erst that elder fiend beneath great michael's sword.
Subject(s): Sheridan, Richard Brinsley (1751-1816)
It was some Spirit, Sheridan! that breathed
O'er thy young mind such wildly various power!
My soul hath marked thee in her shaping hour,
Thy temples with Hymettian flow'rets wreathed:
And sweet thy voice, as when o'er Laura's bier
Sad music trembled through Vauclusa's glade;
Sweet, as at dawn the love-lorn Serenade
That wafts soft dreams to Slumber's listening ear.
Now patriot rage and indignation high
Swell the full tones! And now thine eye-beams dance
Meanings of Scorn and Wit's quaint revelry!
Writhes inly from the bosom-probing glance
The Apostate by the brainless rout adored,
As erst that elder Fiend beneath great Michael's sword.
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