Representative Poetry Online
On this day: June 30th
Random Poem of the Day
2With the least shade of thought to sin allied.
3Woman! above all women glorified,
4Our tainted nature's solitary boast;
5Purer than foam on central ocean tost;
6Brighter than eastern skies at daybreak strewn
7With fancied roses, than the unblemished moon
8Before her wane begins on heaven's blue coast;
9Thy image falls to earth. Yet some, I ween,
10Not unforgiven the suppliant knee might bend,
11As to a visible Power, in which did blend
12All that was mixed and reconciled in thee
13Of mother's love with maiden purity,
14Of high with low, celestial with terrene!
Notes
1] This is from a series of 132 sonnets mostly written in 1821. "It struck me that certain points in the Ecclesiastical History of our Country might advantageously be presented to view in verse. Accordingly, I took up the subject, and what I now offer to the reader was the result" (Wordsworth, with reference to the whole series). In later editions these poems were known as Ecclesiastical Sonnets. Back to Line