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ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS: PART 2: 25. THE VIRGIN by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH

Poet Analysis

First Line: MOTHER! WHOSE VIRGIN BOSOM WAS UNCROST
Last Line: OF HIGH WITH LOW, CELESTIAL WITH TERRENE!
Subject(s): CATHOLICS; MARY. MOTHER OF JESUS; WOMEN IN THE BIBLE; ROMAN CATHOLICS; CATHOLICISM; VIRGIN MARY;

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!




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