Representative Poetry Online
On this day: April 2nd
Random Poem of the Day
2The holy time is quiet as a Nun
3Breathless with adoration; the broad sun
4Is sinking down in its tranquility;
5The gentleness of heaven broods o'er the Sea;
6Listen! the mighty Being is awake,
7And doth with his eternal motion make
8A sound like thunder--everlastingly.
9Dear child! dear Girl! that walkest with me here,
10If thou appear untouched by solemn thought,
11Thy nature is not therefore less divine:
13And worshipp'st at the Temple's inner shrine,
14God being with thee when we know it not.
Notes
1] The poem was written at Calais, where Wordsworth and his sister had gone to meet Annette Vallon and her child, his French daughter Caroline. "We walked by the sea-shore almost every evening with Annette and Caroline, or William and I alone" (Dorothy Wordsworth's Journal). Back to Line
12] See Luke 16: 22. Back to Line