A New Pilgrimage: Sonnet XXIV
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt 1840 (Petworth House) – 1922 (United Kingdom)
And here too I, the latest fool of Time,
Sad child of doubt and passionate desires,
Touched with all pity, yet in league with crime,
Watched the red sunsets from the Alpine spires,
And lit my poet's lamp with kindred fires,
And dared to snatch my share of the sublime.
There was one with me, master of the choirs
Of eloquent thought, who listening to my rhyme,
And seeing in me a soul set on things
Not wholly base, although my need was sore,
Bade me take courage and essay new wings.
And thus it was I first beheld this shore,
Mourning the loss yet half consoled of gain,
The passionate pleader of youth's creed of pain.
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Scheme | ABACBACADEDEFF |
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Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 616 |
Words | 119 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
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