Classic and Contemporary Poetry
A POET TO HIS GRANDCHILD, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Son of my buried son, while thus thy hand ...' Last Line: "my careless little-one, for thee and thine!" Subject(s): Grandchildren | ||||||||
"SON of my buried Son, while thus thy hand "Is clasping mine, it saddens me to think "How Want may press thee down, and with thee sink "Thy children left unfit, through vain demand "Of culture, even to feel or understand "My simplest Lay that to their memory "May cling; -- hard fate! which haply need not be "Did Justice mould the statutes of the Land. "A Book time-cherished and an honoured name "Are high rewards; but bound they Nature's claim "Or Reason's? No -- hopes spun in timid line "From out the bosom of a modest home "Extend through unambitious years to come, "My careless Little-one, for thee and thine!" | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...NURSING HOME: THE VISIT by KAREN SWENSON GRANDDAUGHTER, FIRST MEETING by JOHN UPDIKE TO ALFRED TENNYSON, MY GRANDSON by ALFRED TENNYSON MY SON'S SON TO HIS SON'S SON - PERHAPS by MABEL RUTHERFORD BRIDGES DIPPING CANDLES IN VERMONT by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY GRANNIE'S DREAM: A TRUE INCIDENT by JANET HAMILTON FLEUR DE LYS by CORINNE HUNTINGTON JACKSON SAMANTHA QUITS GROWING by FLEDA BROWN JACKSON A JEWISH FAMILY; IN A SMALL VALLEY OPPOSITE ST. GOAR by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH |
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