Sonnets. Part II, XXX

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"Sonnets. Part II, XXX."Poems (Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1864): 228. Internet Archive

1Yet , even mid merry boyhood's tricks and scapes,

2Early my heart a deeper lesson learnt;

3Wandering alone by many a mile of burnt

4Black woodside, that but the snow-flake decks and drapes.

5And I have stood beneath Canadian sky,

6In utter solitudes, where the cricket's cry

7Appals the heart, and fear takes visible shapes;

8And on Long Island's void and isolate capes

9Heard the sea break like iron bars: and still,

10In all, I seemed to hear the same deep dirge;

11Borne in the wind, the insect's tiny trill,

12And crash and jangle of the shaking surge;

13And knew not what they meant, -- prophetic woe?

14Dim bodings, wherefore? Now, indeed, I know!

Publication Start Year

1860

RPO poem Editors

Data entry: Sharine Leung

RPO Edition

2012

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