12183: Wordsworth Query: Slavin asks, Corbett provides

[Bob Corbett <corbetre@webster.edu>]

From: PSlavin@unicefusa.org

Can anyone on the list point me to a Web page that has the complete
Wordsworth "Touissant" poem? Thanks for the help.

Patrick

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Patrick, I have the sonnet on my web site at:

http://www.webster.edu/~corbetre/haiti/history/revolution/wordsworth.htm

However, here it is in total:


Wordsworth's Sonnet on Toussaint

TO TOUSSAINT L'OUVERTURE By William Wordsworth

TOUSSAINT, the most unhappy man of men!
Whether the whistling Rustic tend his plough
Within thy hearing, or thy head be now
Pillowed in some deep dungeon's earless den;
O miserable Chieftain! where and when
Wilt thou find patience? Yet die not; do thou
Wear rather in thy bonds a cheerful brow:
Though fallen thyself, never to rise again,
Live, and take comfort. Thou hast left behind
Powers that will work for thee; air, earth, and skies;
There's not a breathing of the common wind
That will forget thee; thou hast great allies;
Thy friends are exultations, agonies,
And love, and man's unconquerable mind.

Wordsworth, William.
1888. Complete Poetical Works.