This work refers to Thomas Otway in the seventh section's discussion of a lost child hoping to make her mother hear her cries. Published on the day on which a friend of its author married Mary Hutchinson, this poem is addressed to a "Lady" who is told "we receive but what we give" and upon whom are wished joy and, ultimately, sleep. Its seventh line alludes to an ?lian lute, the subject of another
This work refers to Thomas Otway in the seventh section's discussion of a lost child hoping to make her mother hear her cries. Published on the day on which a friend of its author married Mary Hutchinson, this poem is addressed to a "Lady" who is told "we receive but what we give" and upon whom are wished joy and, ultimately, sleep. Its seventh line alludes to an ?lian lute, the subject of another poem by the same author. It begins by saying that the wind will disturb the now-calm night according to the Ballad of Sir Patrick Spence. This poem's third and shortest section contains its famous lament, "My genial spirits fail." FTP, name this poem about the decay of creative powers, an ode by Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
This work refers to Thomas Otway in the seventh section's discussion of a lost child hoping to make her mother hear her cries.
"Dejection: An Ode"