Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, TO SILVIO PELLICO, RELEASED, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS


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First Line: How flows thy being now?
Last Line: Of love to man, and quenchless trust in god!
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Freedom; Pellico, Sivio (1789-1854); Liberty


How flows thy being now? -- like some glad hymn
One strain of solemn rapture? -- doth thine eye
Wander through tears of voiceless feeling dim
O'er the crowned Alps, that, 'midst the upper sky,
Sleep in the sunlight of thine Italy?
Or is thy gaze of reverent love profound
Unto these dear, parental faces bound,
Which, with their silvery hair, so oft glanced by,
Haunting thy prison dreams? Where'er thou art,
Blessings be shed upon thine inmost heart!
Joy, from kind looks, blue skies, and flowery sod,
For that pure voice of thoughtful wisdom sent
Forth from thy cell, in sweetness eloquent,
Of love to man, and quenchless trust in God!





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