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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SONNETS ON EMINENT CHARACTERS: 3. PRIESTLEY, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: Though roused by that dark vizir riot rude
Last Line: To smile with fondness on her gazing son!
Subject(s): Priestley, Joseph (1733-1804)
First Line: Though roused by that dark vizir riot rude
Last Line: To smile with fondness on her gazing son!
Subject(s): Priestley, Joseph (1733-1804)
Though roused by that dark Vizir Riot rude
Have driven our Priestley o'er the ocean swell;
Though Superstition and her wolfish brood
Bay his mild radiance, impotent and fell;
Calm in his halls of brightness he shall dwell!
For lo! Religion at his strong behest
Starts with mild anger from the Papal spell,
And flings to earth her tinsel-glittering vest,
Her mitred state and cumbrous pomp unholy;
And Justice wakes to bid the Oppressor wail
Insulting aye the wrongs of patient Folly:
And from her dark retreat by Wisdom won
Meek Nature slowly lifts her matron veil
To smile with fondness on her gazing son!
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