Ximenes, The wreath, and other poems / By J.W. Polidori.

  • John William Polidori
Date:
1819
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Credit: Ximenes, The wreath, and other poems / By J.W. Polidori. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    SONNET. Written in the Album, at Costessey, after irt^ recovery from an accident, 1817. Hurl’d from my car I lay upon the ground, When death, who comes with rapid step alone To those for whom joy spreads her gleam around, Ran to transfix the victim ’fore him thrown. But soon I saw of two fair forms the hands Outstretch’d in my defence—like those* they seem’d, Whose breath had caused my happiness — no wands. No weapons in the air around me gleamed. Yet death recoil’d — it seemed as if he bowed Before my guardian’s will perchance he thought He saw in them, as in the twof who brav’d Awhile his pow’r, the Godhead’s image grav’d So bright; and though majestic, mild it showed. As if the sov’reign fiat they had brought. ♦ I had been particularly happy before this accident, t Adam and Eve in Paradise were not subject to death.
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