Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THOMAS CHATTERTON, by ALEXANDER LOUIS FRASER


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THOMAS CHATTERTON, by                    
First Line: Comfort's warm door 'gainst him was bolted fast
Last Line: A lofty niche unto him now belongs!
Subject(s): Chatterton, Thomas (1752-1770)


Comfort's warm door 'gainst him was bolted fast,
Men heeded not his piping in the rain;
Unheard, awhile, he played a wondrous strain
Of melody; but ah, Neglect's cold blast
Soon chilled his touch, his flute aside he cast
In wan despair; from human haunts he hied
And from Preferment's door,—his boyish pride
Was wounded deep, and from men's midst there passed
An angel soul! Oh, the eternal shame,
They made his grave—as though among his peers—
With paupers in Shoe Lane! But in the songs
That lift the soul from common things one hears
His wistful note; while in the Hall of Fame
A lofty niche unto him now belongs!





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