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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE POET'S WISH, by WILLIAM MOTHERWELL Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: O would that in some wild and winding glen
Last Line: I'd wed thee, solitude, dear nature's first-born daughter!
Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, Isaac
Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness
First Line: O would that in some wild and winding glen
Last Line: I'd wed thee, solitude, dear nature's first-born daughter!
Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, Isaac
Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness
O WOULD that in some wild and winding glen
Where human footstep ne'er did penetrate,
And from the haunts of base and selfish men
Remote, in dreamy loneness situate,
I had my dwelling: and within my ken
Nature desporting in fantastic form --
Asleep in green repose, and thundering in the storm!
Then mine should be a life of deep delight, --
Rare undulations of ecstatic musing;
Thoughts calm, yet ever-varying, stream bedight
With flowers immortal of quick Fancy's choosing --
And like unto the ray of tremulous light,
Blent by the pale moon with the entranced water,
I'd wed thee, Solitude, dear Nature's first-born daughter!
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