greykit.poetry — #childhood

• 1916 [robert-frost] Birches
  Mountain Interval

  Ice storms bend the birches for good, but the poet would rather believe a boy did it — and wants the same for himself: to climb toward heaven until the tree sets him down again, since earth's the right place for love.

  #blank-verse#childhood#escape#1910s
• 1875 [edgar-allan-poe] Alone
  Poems (1849)

  From childhood's hour, unable to take his passions from a common spring — the mystery that binds him still drawn from every depth of good and ill, and a demon in the cloud that took the form of a view.

  #lyric#solitude#childhood#1870s
• 1807 [william-wordsworth] Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood
  Poems, in Two Volumes

  Wordsworth's great ode on the fading of the visionary gleam — the sense, felt in childhood, of a celestial radiance on all things, and the poet's mature consolation in memory, sympathy, and "the soothing thoughts that spring / Out of human suffering.

  #ode#childhood#memory#immortality#Romantic#1800s