Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS: PART 1: 30. CANUTE, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A pleasant music floats along the mere Last Line: Of heaven-descended piety and song. Subject(s): Canute The Great, King Of England; Piety | ||||||||
A PLEASANT music floats along the Mere, From Monks in Ely chanting service high, While-as Canute the King is rowing by: "My Oarsmen," quoth the mighty King, "draw near, "That we the sweet song of the Monks may hear!" He listens (all past conquests, and all schemes Of future, vanishing like empty dreams) Heart-touched, and haply not without a tear. The Royal Minstrel, ere the choir is still, While his free Barge skims the smooth flood along, Gives to that rapture an accordant Rhyme. O suffering Earth! be thankful: sternest clime And rudest age are subject to the thrill Of heaven-descended Piety and Song. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...HYMN: FIRST SUNDAY AFTER EPIPHANY: 2 by REGINALD HEBER ON THE LOSS OF A PIOUS FRIEND by JOHN GARDINER CALKINS BRAINARD BLUEBEARD'S LAST WIFE: COMES PIETY by OLIVER BROOK HERFORD AN EPIGRAM TO KING CHARLES by BEN JONSON HELLENICS: CATILLUS AND SALIA by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR A THANKSGIVING FOR F.D. MAURICE by GEORGE MACDONALD VIOLIN SONGS: TO MY SISTER, ON HER TWENTY-FIRST BIRTHDAY by GEORGE MACDONALD A JEWISH FAMILY; IN A SMALL VALLEY OPPOSITE ST. GOAR by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH |
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