Natalia’s Resurrection: Sonnet VIII

Wilfrid Scawen Blunt 1840 (Petworth House) – 1922 (United Kingdom)



And so it was that, sitting ever thus
Dumb to all speech of those that knew her woe
And bare with her sole sorrow in the house,
And ever watching with sad eyes below
To see if any came with help for her
Whom none could help with pity or with pride
Or word of patience, ere her time was near,
She bore her yet unliving child and died.
There was great mourning for her in those days
Because of her high lineage and fair youth.
Men knowing her spoke nobly in her praise,
Or knowing not yet mourned for very ruth.
And all Rome wept for her, and far and wide
The fame was noised how of her love she died.

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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Scheme ABCBDEFEGHGHEE
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 594
Words 124
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 14

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