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First Line: With shakespeare's manhood at a boy's wild
Last Line: And love-dream of thine unrecorded face.
Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante
Subject(s): Chatterton, Thomas (1752-1770)


WITH Shakespeare's manhood at a boy's wild heart,--
Through Hamlet's doubt to Shakespeare near allied,
And kin to Milton through his Satan's pride,--
At Death's sole door he stooped, and craved a dart;
And to the dear new bower of England's art,--
Even to that shrine Time else had deified,
The unuttered heart that soared against his side,--
Drove the fell point, and smote life's seals apart.

Thy nested home-loves, noble Chatterton;
The angel-trodden stair thy soul could trace
Up Redcliffe's spire; and in the world's armed space
Thy gallant sword-play:--these to many an one
Are sweet for ever; as thy grave unknown
And love-dream of thine unrecorded face.





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