Oh! How I Love, on a Fair Summer’s Eve
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A Sonnet of Patriotic Musing
This sonnet frames a summer evening scene where natural calm loosens everyday cares and invites contemplative delight. The speaker moves from sensory pleasure—golden light, zephyrs, fragrant wilds—to inward reflection, invoking Milton and Sydney as patriotic exemplars. The poem links personal emotion and poetic inspiration, suggesting that nature’s tranquillity elevates the mind into Poesy and occasional bittersweet tears born of admiration and historical meditation.
Read Complete AnalysesOh! how I love, on a fair summer’s eve, When streams of light pour down the golden west, And on the balmy zephyrs tranquil rest The silver clouds, far – far away to leave All meaner thoughts, and take a sweet reprieve Fromm little cares; to find, with easy quest, A fragrant wild, with Nature’s beauty drest, And there into the delight my soul deceive. There warm my breast with patriotic lore, Musing on Milton’s fate – on Sydney’s bier – Till their stern forms before my mind arise: Perhaps on wing of Poesy upsoar, Full often dropping a delicious tear, When some melodious sorrow spells mine eyes.
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