Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TO AN INFANT EXPIRING THE SECOND DAY OF ITS BIRTH, by HETTY WRIGHT First Line: Tender softness, infant mild Last Line: Partner in thy destiny! Subject(s): Babies; Death - Children; Grief; Mothers; Pain; Infants; Death - Babies; Sorrow; Sadness; Suffering; Misery | ||||||||
TENDER softness, infant mild, Perfect, purest, brightest child; Transient lustre, beauteous clay, Smiling wonder of a day: Ere the last convulsive start Rends the unresisting heart; Ere the long-enduring swoon Weighs thy precious eyelids down; Oh! regard a mother's moan, Anguish deeper than thy own! Fairest eyes, whose dawning light Late with rapture blessed my sight, Ere your orbs extinguished be, Bend their trembling beams on me. Drooping sweetness, verdant flow'r, Blooming, with'ring in an hour, Ere thy gentle breast sustains Latest, fiercest, vital pains, Hear a suppliant! Let me be Partner in thy destiny! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...PARTHENOPHIL AND PARTHENOPHE: MADRIGAL 14 by BARNABE BARNES SONNETS IN SHADOWS: 1 by ARLO BATES IN PRAISE OF PAIN by HEATHER MCHUGH THE SYMPATIZERS by JOSEPHINE MILES LEEK STREET by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR |
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