Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SONNET: STRATFORD-ON-AVON, MAY 14, 1880, by CONSTANCE CAROLINE WOODHILL NADEN Poet's Biography First Line: The grey old church is solemn in the sheen Last Line: Changeful, yet changeless, e'en as life and love. Subject(s): Stratford-on-avon, England | ||||||||
THE grey old church is solemn in the sheen Of noonday -- half its reverend beauty won From that blind, silent, lifeless denizen Who sleeps within; whose living soul is seen In tall and arching lindens, freshly green, With light leaves golden-twinkling in the sun; In all sweet May-tide joyance, new begun, That sings or blooms where frost and snow have been And in the rippling, daisy-bordered river, That flashes back the joy of God and man, And whispers to fresh hearts, that wake and quiver, Such melodies, as round young Shakespeare wove Their spells, while near his feet the Avon ran, Changeful, yet changeless, e'en as life and love. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...STRATFORD SKETCHES by WADE WRIGHT OLIVER A LETTER by CONSTANCE CAROLINE WOODHILL NADEN A MODERN APOSTLE by CONSTANCE CAROLINE WOODHILL NADEN BOOKS by CONSTANCE CAROLINE WOODHILL NADEN CHANGED by CONSTANCE CAROLINE WOODHILL NADEN CHRIST, THE NAZARENE by CONSTANCE CAROLINE WOODHILL NADEN DAY-DREAMS by CONSTANCE CAROLINE WOODHILL NADEN DEDICATION TO J.C. AND CAROLINE WOODHILL by CONSTANCE CAROLINE WOODHILL NADEN EVOLUTIONARY EROTICS: NATURAL SELECTION by CONSTANCE CAROLINE WOODHILL NADEN EVOLUTIONARY EROTICS: SCIENTIFIC WOOING by CONSTANCE CAROLINE WOODHILL NADEN EVOLUTIONARY EROTICS: SOLOMON REDIVIVUS, 1886 by CONSTANCE CAROLINE WOODHILL NADEN EVOLUTIONARY EROTICS: THE NEW ORTHODOXY by CONSTANCE CAROLINE WOODHILL NADEN |
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