Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS: PART 1: 3. TREPIDATION OF THE DRUIDS, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Screams round the arch-druids brow the sea-mew - white Last Line: Receive the faith, and in the hope abide. | ||||||||
SCREAMS round the Arch-druid's brow the sea-mew -- white As Menai's foam; and toward the mystic ring Where Augurs stand, the Future questioning, Slowly the cormorant aims her heavy flight, Portending ruin to each baleful rite, That, in the lapse of ages, hath crept o'er Diluvian truths, and patriarchal lore. Haughty the Bard: can these meek doctrines blight His transports? wither his heroic strains? But all shall be fulfilled; -- the Julian spear A way first opened; and, with Roman chains, The tidings come of Jesus crucified; They come -- they spread -- the weak, the suffering, hear; Receive the faith, and in the hope abide. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...A JEWISH FAMILY; IN A SMALL VALLEY OPPOSITE ST. GOAR by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH ADMONITION [TO A TRAVELLER] by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH AN APRIL MORNING by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH ANECDOTE FOR FATHERS by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH ANIMAL TRANQUILITY AND DECAY; A SKETCH by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH AT FLORENCE by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH AT THE GRAVE OF BURNS; SEVEN YEARS AFTER HIS DEATH by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH BUONAPARTE by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH COMPOSED AT NEIDPATH CASTLE, 1803 by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH COMPOSED BY THE SEA-SIDE NEAR CALAIS [AUGUST 1802] by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH |
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