Poetical Fragments from Ethel Churchill Volume II/Influence of Poetry

by Letitia Elizabeth Landon

CHAPTER XXX.

SIR ROBERT WALPOLE AND HOUSE.

This is the charm of poetry: it comes
On sad perturbed moments; and its thoughts,
Like pearls amid the troubled waters, gleam.
That which we garnered in our eager youth,
Becomes a long delight in after years:
The mind is strengthened, and the heart refreshed
By some old memory of gifted words,
That bring sweet feelings, answering to our own,
Or dreams that waken some more lofty mood
Than dwelleth with the commonplace of life.

Blanchard’s title is:

INFLUENCE OF POETRY