Nature

Sonnet: Give me a cottage on some Cambrian wild

by Henry Kirke White 1785–1806

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Nature

Give me a cottage on some Cambrian wild,
Where far from cities I may spend my days;
And, by the beauties of the scene beguiled,
May pity man's pursuits and shun his ways.
While on the rock I mark the browsing goat,
List to the mountain-torrent's distant noise,
Or the hoarse bittern's solitary note,
I shall not want the world's delusive joys;
But with my little scrip, my book, my lyre,
Shall think my lot complete, nor covet more;
And when, with time, shall wane the vital fire,
I'll raise my pillow on the desert shore,
And lay me down to rest where the wild wave
Shall make sweet music o'er my lonely grave.

MLA

White, Henry Kirke. “Sonnet: Give me a cottage on some Cambrian wild.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/kirke_white/70/.

Chicago

White, Henry Kirke. “Sonnet: Give me a cottage on some Cambrian wild.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/kirke_white/70/.

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