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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TO THE PLANET VENUS, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: What strong allurement draws, what spirit guides
Last Line: Ere we lie down in our last dormitory?
Subject(s): Venus (planet)
First Line: What strong allurement draws, what spirit guides
Last Line: Ere we lie down in our last dormitory?
Subject(s): Venus (planet)
WHAT strong allurement draws, what spirit guides,
Thee, Vesper! brightening still, as if the nearer
Thou com'st to man's abode the spot grew dearer
Night after night? True is it Nature hides
Her treasures less and less. -- Man now presides
In power, where once he trembled in his weakness;
Science advances with gigantic strides;
But are we aught enriched in love and meekness?
Aught dost thou see, bright Star! of pure and wise
More than in humbler times graced human story;
That makes our hearts more apt to sympathise
With heaven, our souls more fit for future glory,
When earth shall vanish from our closing eyes,
Ere we lie down in our last dormitory?
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