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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SONNET. ON SEEING MISS HELEN MARIA WILLIAMS WEEP AT A TALE OF DISTRESS, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: She wept. - life's purple tide began to flow
Last Line: To cheer the wand'ring wretch with hospitable light.
First Line: She wept. - life's purple tide began to flow
Last Line: To cheer the wand'ring wretch with hospitable light.
She wept. - Life's purple tide began to flow
In lanquid streams through every thrilling vein;
Dim were my swimming eyes - my pulse beat slow.
And my full heart was swell'd to dear delicious pain.
Life left my loaded heart, and closing eye;
A sigh recall'd the wanderer to my breast;
Dear was the pause of life, and dear the sigh
That call'd the wanderer home, and home to rest.
That tear proclaims - in thee each virtue dwells,
And bright will shine in misery's midnight hour;
As the soft star of dewy evening tells
What radianr fires were drown'd by day's malignant pow'r,
That only wait the darkness of the night
To cheer the wand'ring wretch with hospitable light.
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