object:1.ww - Inside of King's College Chapel, Cambridge
author class:William Wordsworth
book class:Wordsworth - Poems
subject class:Poetry
class:chapter
. Tax not the royal Saint with vain expense,
With ill-matched aims the Architect who planned
Albeit labouring for a scanty band
Of white-robed Scholars onlythis immense
And glorious Work of fine intelligence!
Give all thou canst; high Heaven rejects the lore
Of nicely-calculated less or more;
So deemed the man who fashioned for the sense
These lofty pillars, spread that branching roof
Self-poised, and scooped into ten thousand cells,
Where light and shade repose, where music dwells
Lingeringand wandering on as loth to die;
Like thoughts whose very sweetness yieldeth proof
That they were born for immortality.
NOTES
Form:
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Composition Date:
1820?
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This poem, from a series of 132 sonnets mostly written in 1821, may have been
written in 1820, when Wordsworth visited his brother Christopher (Master of Trinity)
at Cambridge. It is for that reason that it precedes the other two, in spite of the fact
that in the series it comes after both. "It struck me that certain points in the
Ecclesiastical History of our Country might advantageously be presented to view
in verse. Accordingly, I took up the subject, and what I now offer to the reader
was the result" (Wordsworth, with reference to the whole series). In later editions
these poems were known as Ecclesiastical Sonnets.
royal Saint: Henry VI.
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