object:1.ww - The Virgin
author class:William Wordsworth
book class:Wordsworth - Poems
subject class:Poetry
class:chapter
. Mother! whose virgin bosom was uncrost
With the least shade of thought to sin allied.
Woman! above all women glorified,
Our tainted nature's solitary boast;
Purer than foam on central ocean tost;
Brighter than eastern skies at daybreak strewn
With fancied roses, than the unblemished moon
Before her wane begins on heaven's blue coast;
Thy image falls to earth. Yet some, I ween,
Not unforgiven the suppliant knee might bend,
As to a visible Power, in which did blend
All that was mixed and reconciled in thee
Of mother's love with maiden purity,
Of high with low, celestial with terrene!
NOTES
Form:
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Composition Date:
1821?
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This is from a series of 132 sonnets mostly written in 1821. "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.
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