Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS: PART 3: 22. CATECHISING, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH



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ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS: PART 3: 22. CATECHISING, by                 Poet Analysis     Poet's Biography
First Line: From little down to least, in due degree
Last Line: And ill requited by this heartfelt sigh!
Subject(s): Catechism


FROM Little down to Least, in due degree,
Around the Pastor, each in new-wrought vest,
Each with a vernal posy at his breast,
We stood, a trembling, earnest Company!
With low soft murmur, like a distant bee,
Some spake, by thought-perplexing fears betrayed;
And some a bold unerring answer made:
How fluttered then thy anxious heart for me,
Beloved Mother! Thou whose happy hand
Had bound the flowers I wore, with faithful tie:
Sweet flowers! at whose inaudible command
Her countenance, phantom-like, doth reappear:
O lost too early for the frequent tear,
And ill requited by this heartfelt sigh!






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