To a Deaf and Dumb Little Girl
Hartley Coleridge
1796 to 1849
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Reconstruct the poem by dragging each line into its correct position. Your goal is to reassemble the original poem as accurately as possible. As you move the lines, you'll see whether your arrangement is correct, helping you explore the poem's flow and meaning. Take your time, enjoy the process, and discover how the poet's words come together to create something truly beautiful.
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The solemn step, coy slide, the merry bounds.
And yet methinks she looks so calm and good,
Her waking life as lonely as a trance,
The vague, mute language of the countenance.
And never hear the music which expounds
God must be with her in her solitude!
Herself her all, she lives in privacy;
She cannot hear it. All her little being
Doom'd to behold the universal dance,
Unconscious floating on the fickle sea,
Like a loose island on the wide expanse,
In vain for her I smooth my antic rhyme;
Concentrated in her solitary seeing—
What can she know of beauty or sublime?