Daily Sip - Nuns fret not at their convent's narrow room

  • sibyllene
    13 years ago

    Nuns fret not at their convent's narrow room
    And hermits are contented with their cells;
    And students with their pensive citadels;
    Maids at the wheel, the weaver at his loom,
    Sit blithe and happy; bees that soar for bloom,
    High as the highest Peak of Furness-fells,
    Will murmur by the hour in foxglove bells:
    In truth the prison, into which we doom
    Ourselves, no prison is: and hence for me,
    In sundry moods, 'twas pastime to be bound
    Within the Sonnet's scanty plot of ground;
    Pleased if some Souls (for such there needs must be)
    Who have felt the weight of too much liberty,
    Should find brief solace there, as I have found.

    -William Wordsworth

  • Narphangu
    13 years ago

    This is a nice one Sibby, where did you find it?
    I love "Maids at the wheel, the weaver at his loom, sit blithe and happy; bees that soar in bloom," Alliteration, assonance... sigh Wordsworth.

  • sibyllene
    13 years ago

    Where I find most of my poems... on the interwebs! Just kind of stumbled onto it.

    I love me some sweet, sweet assonance.