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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
CAPTIVITY. - MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As the cold aspect of a sunless way ...' Last Line: "and, like mine eyes that stream with sorrow, blind!" Subject(s): Mary, Queen Of Scots (1542-1587); Mary Stuart | |||
"AS the cold aspect of a sunless way Strikes through the Traveller's frame with deadlier chill, Oft as appears a grove, or obvious hill, Glistening with unparticipated ray, Or shining slope where he must never stray; So joys, remembered without wish or will Sharpen the keenest edge of present ill, -- On the crushed heart a heavier burthen lay. Just Heaven, contract the compass of my mind To fit proportion with my altered state! Quench those felicities whose light I find Reflected in my bosom all too late! -- O be my spirit, like my thraldom, strait; And, like mine eyes that stream with sorrow, blind!" | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ALAS! POOR QUEEN by MARION ANGUS MARY, QUEEN OF SCOTS by HENRY GLASSFORD BELL THE DAUGHTER OF DEBATE by ELIZABETH I THE TRAGIC MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS: 1 by KATHERINE HARRIS BRADLEY LAMENT OF MARY, QUEEN OF SCOTS, ON THE APPROACH OF SPRING by ROBERT BURNS QUEEN MARY AT FOTHERINGAY by AMELIA JOSEPHINE BURR ON LOCH LEVEN by CHRISTIAN CARSTAIRS ON THE EXECUTION OF MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS by LUCRETIA MARIA DAVIDSON A JEWISH FAMILY; IN A SMALL VALLEY OPPOSITE ST. GOAR by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH |
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