<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=354871" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Mary Arden</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">When a simple English maiden, <br> Nested warm in Wilmicote, <br>Sang forth like a lark uprising <br> Heavenward with its morning note, <br>Did no English ear that listened, <br> Even then, foretouched by fame, <br>Tremble to the prophet-music <br> Fountain-headed in thy name, <br> Mary Arden? <br>And to thee thyself, O tell me! <br> Shade of Shakespeare’s mother, tell me! <br>Did no dazzling vision come, <br> Banishing all thoughts of gloom, <br>Of the bardic grandeurs waiting <br> On thy matron fate, when He <br>Who in time should call thee mother <br> Should all time’s subjector be, <br> Mary Arden? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then a mother we behold thee, <br> With that babe upon thy breast, <br>That great nascent soul, so bird-like, <br> Babbling in its fragrant nest: <br>O what spirit sweetly human, <br> O what instincts mildly wise, <br>Sucked he from those mother-fountains, <br> Drew he from those mother-eyes, <br> Mary Arden? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">But shall we, now spirit-basking <br> In the noonblaze of his fame, <br>Fail to read a sign prophetic <br> In thy lovely maiden name? <br>No; it is the star that trembled <br> O’er a royal poet’s birth; <br>And amongst immortal Maries, <br> Second to but one on earth, <br> Mary Arden! <br>Glory to thee! Mary Arden! <br>Shakespeare’s mother! England’s Mary! </div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Charles+Harpur">Charles Harpur</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=354871" data-title="Mary Arden de Charles Harpur" data-description="When a simple English maiden, Nested warm in Wilmicote, Sang forth like a lark uprising Heavenward with its morning note, Did no English ear that listened, Even then, foretouched by fame, Tremble to the prophet-music Fountain-headed in ..."></div> </div> </div>

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