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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
FILIAL PIETY, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: Untouched through all severity of cold
Last Line: And red-breasts warble when sweet sounds are rare.
Subject(s): Piety
First Line: Untouched through all severity of cold
Last Line: And red-breasts warble when sweet sounds are rare.
Subject(s): Piety
UNTOUCHED through all severity of cold;
Inviolate, whate'er the cottage hearth
Might need for comfort, or for festal mirth;
That Pile of Turf is half a century old:
Yes, Traveller! fifty winters have been told
Since suddenly the dart of death went forth
'Gainst him who raised it, -- his last work on earth:
Thence has it, with the Son, so strong a hold
Upon his Father's memory, that his hands,
Through reverence, touch it only to repair
Its waste. -- Though crumbling with each breath of air,
In annual renovation thus it stands --
Rude Mausoleum! but wrens nestle there,
And red-breasts warble when sweet sounds are rare.
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