Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TO THE WINDS, by CHARLOTTE SMITH Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ye vagrant winds! Yon clouds that bear Last Line: Madness or death. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Charlotte Turner Subject(s): Wind | ||||||||
Ye vagrant Winds! yon clouds that bear Thro' the blue desart of the air, Soft sailing in the Summer sky, Do e'er your wandering breezes meet A wretch in misery so complete, So lost as I? And yet, where'er your pinions wave O'er some lost friend's -- some lover's grave, Surviving sufferers still complain; Some parent of his hopes deprived, Some wretch who has himself survived, Lament in vain. Blow where ye list on this sad earth, Some soul-corroding care has birth, And Grief in all her accents speaks; Here dark Dejection groans, and there Wild Phrenzy, daughter of Despair, Unconscious shrieks. Ah! were it Death had torn apart The tie that bound him to my heart, Tho' fatal still the pang would prove; Yet had it soothed this bleeding breast To know, I had till then possest Hillario's love. And where his dear, dear ashes slept, Long nights and days I then had wept, Till by slow-mining Grief opprest As Memory fail'd, its vital heat This wayward heart had lost, and beat Itself to rest. But still Hillario lives, to prove To some more happy maid his love! Hillario at her feet I see! His voice still murmurs fond desire, Still beam his eyes with lambent fire, But not for me! Ah! words, my bosom's peace that stole, Ah! looks, that won my melting soul; Who dares your dear delusion try, In dreams may all Elysium see, Then undeceiv'd, awake, like me, Awake and die. Like me, who now abandon'd, lost, Roam wildly on the rocky coast, With eager eyes the sea explore; But hopeless watch and vainly rave, Hillario o'er the western wave Returns no more! Yet, go forgiven, Hillario go, Such anguish may you never know As that which checks my labouring breath; Pain so severe not long endures, And I have still my choice of cures, Madness or death. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE THREE CHILDREN by JOSEPHINE JACOBSEN THE WIND by LOUISE MOREY BOWMAN LEAF LITTER ON ROCK FACE by HEATHER MCHUGH RESIDENTIAL AREA by JOSEPHINE MILES THE DAY THE WINDS by JOSEPHINE MILES VARIATIONS: 12 by CONRAD AIKEN OH IT'S PRETTY WINDY OUTSIDE by LARRY EIGNER ELEGIAC SONNET: 2. WRITTEN AT THE CLOSE OF SPRING by CHARLOTTE SMITH ELEGIAC SONNET: 4. TO THE MOON by CHARLOTTE SMITH ELEGIAC SONNET: 44. WRITTEN IN THE CHURCH YARD AT MIDDLETON IN SUSSEX by CHARLOTTE SMITH |
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