A New Pilgrimage: Sonnet XXXV
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt 1840 (Petworth House) – 1922 (United Kingdom)
At last I kneel in Rome, the bourne, the goal
Of what a multitude of laden hearts!
No pilgrim of them all a wearier soul
Brought ever here, no master of dark arts
A spirit vexed with more discordant parts,
No beggar a scrip barer of all dole;
No son, alas, steps sorer with the darts
Of that rebellious sorrow, his sin's toll.
I kneel and make an offering of my care
And folly, and hurt reason. Who would not
In this fair city be the fool of prayer?
Who would not kneel, if only for the lot
Of being born again--a soul forgiven,
Clothed in new childhood and the light of Heaven?
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Scheme | ABABBABACDCDEE |
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Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 573 |
Words | 115 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
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