Natalia’s Resurrection: Sonnet XV

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



Anon, ere yet his pleasure was aware
Of other presence with him in that place,
A growing murmur in the jubilant air,
With hum of voices gathering apace,
And laughter interchanged, and tones well known,
And steps approaching him familiar--wise,
And names that seemed an echo of his own,
Broke on his musing. Turning in surprise
He saw around him a gay company,
Faces of kinsmen or of friends as near,
But dead or changed or wed: all now in joy,
Such as they showed him once in days more dear
Ere yet his manhood had been touched with pain,
Stood forth to greet him to their hearts again.

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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Scheme ABABCDCDEFGFHI
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 581
Words 111
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 14

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