Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, SONNET WRITTEN DURING HIS RESIDENCE IN COLLEGE, by CHARLES WOLFE


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First Line: My spirit's on the mountains, where the birds
Last Line: To fancy is to feel our happiness.
Subject(s): Happiness; Joy; Delight


MY spirit's on the mountains, where the birds
In wild and sportive freedom wing the air,
Amidst the heath flowers and the browsing herds,
Where Nature's altar is, my spirit's there.
It is my joy to tread the pathless hills,
Though but in fancy -- for my mind is free
And walks by sedgy ways and trickling rills,
While I'm forbid the use of liberty.
This is delusion -- but it is so sweet
That I could live deluded. Let me be
Persuaded that my springing soul may meet
The eagle on the hills -- and I am free.
Who'd not be flattered by a fate like this?
To fancy is to feel our happiness.





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