William Wordsworth & Dorothy Wordsworth
William Wordsworth
William Wordsworth
William Wordsworth
William Wordsworth
William Wordsworth
William Wordsworth
William Wordsworth
William Wordsworth & Dorothy Wordsworth
William Wordsworth
William Wordsworth
William Wordsworth
A sonnet that Wordsworth called his best in 1808 – saying it would elevate the minds of any who read it. Samuel Taylor Coleridge also admired the poem and published it in his periodical The Friend.
It is sometimes overlooked by other sonnets by Wordsworth and critical reception has been divided....
Two Voices are there; one is of the Sea,
One of the Mountains; each a mighty Voice:
In both from age to age Thou didst rejoice,
They were thy chosen Music, Liberty!
There came a Tyrant, and with holy glee
Thou fought’st against Him; but hast vainly striven;
Thou from thy Alpine Holds at length art driven,
Where not a torrent murmurs heard by thee.
Of one deep bliss thine ear hath been bereft:
Then cleave, O cleave to that which still is left!
For, high-soul’d Maid, what sorrow would it be
That mountain Floods should thunder as before,
And Ocean bellow from his rocky shore,
And neither awful Voice be heard by thee!
William Wordsworth released Thought of a Briton on the Subjugation of Switzerland on Fri Jan 01 1808.