Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS: PART 2: 27. IMAGINATIVE REGRETS, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH



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ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS: PART 2: 27. IMAGINATIVE REGRETS, by                 Poet Analysis     Poet's Biography
First Line: Deep is the lamentation! Not alone
Last Line: And stalking pillars built of fiery sand.


DEEP is the lamentation! Not alone
From Sages justly honoured by mankind;
But from the ghostly tenants of the wind,
Demons and Spirits, many a dolorous groan
Issues for that dominion overthrown:
Proud Tiber grieves, and far-off Ganges, blind
As his own worshippers: and Nile, reclined
Upon his monstrous urn, the farewell moan
Renews. Through every forest, cave, and den,
Where frauds were hatched of old, hath sorrow past --
Hangs o'er the Arabian Prophet's native Waste,
Where once his airy helpers schemed and planned
'Mid spectral lakes bemocking thirsty men,
And stalking pillars built of fiery sand.






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