http://www.nps.gov/libo/historyculture/matthew-gentry.htm
One Matthew Gentry was the unfotunate. Yes, it's amazing, as if Wordsworth
had been raiding Coleridge's drug cabinet. Thanks, Max, I think, I shall
remember it.
On 3 August 2010 01:26, Robin Hamilton <[log in to unmask]>wrote:
> Sheesh!!! I thought it was a parody, crossing Wordsworth with _Peter
> Grimes_!!!!
>
> Robin
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> From: "James Cervantes" <[log in to unmask]>
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> Honest Abe. Honest.
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>> - Jim
>>
>> On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 6:39 PM, Max Richards <[log in to unmask]>
>> wrote:
>>
>> Who wrote this excerpt?
>>> and how does the poem begin?
>>>
>>> Poor Matthew! Once of genius bright,
>>> 46 A fortune-favored child --
>>> 47Now locked for aye, in mental night,
>>> 48 A haggard mad-man wild.
>>>
>>> 49Poor Matthew! I have ne'er forgot
>>> 50 When first, with maddened will,
>>> 51Yourself you maimed, your father fought,
>>> 52 And mother strove to kill;
>>>
>>> 53When terror spread, and neighbours ran,
>>> 54 Your dang'rous strength to bind;
>>> 55And soon, a howling crazy man
>>> 56 Your limbs were fast confined.
>>>
>>> 57How then you strove and shrieked aloud,
>>> 58 Your bones and sinnews bared;
>>> 59And fiendish on the gazing crowd,
>>> 60 With burning eye-balls glared --
>>>
>>> 61And begged, and swore, and wept and prayed
>>> 62 With maniac laughter joined --
>>> 63How fearful were those signs displayed
>>> 64 By pangs that killed thy mind!
>>>
>>> 65And when at length, tho' drear and long,
>>> 66 Time soothed thy fiercer woes,
>>> 67How plaintively thy mournful song,
>>> 68 Upon the still night rose.
>>>
>>>
>>> from max, surprised...
>>>
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