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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE RIVER DUDDON: SONNET 5, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: Sole listener, duddon! To the breeze that played
Last Line: On infant bosoms lonely nature lies.
First Line: Sole listener, duddon! To the breeze that played
Last Line: On infant bosoms lonely nature lies.
SOLE listener, Duddon! to the breeze that played
With thy clear voice, I caught the fitful sound
Wafted o'er sullen moss and craggy mound --
Unfruitful solitudes, that seemed to upbraid
The sun in heaven! -- but now, to form a shade
For Thee, green alders have together wound
Their foliage; ashes flung their arms around;
And birch-trees risen in silver colonnade.
And thou hast also tempted here to rise,
'Mid sheltering pines, this Cottage rude and grey;
Whose ruddy children, by the mother's eyes
Carelessly watched, sport through the summer day,
Thy pleased associates: -- light as endless May
On infant bosoms lonely Nature lies.
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