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A little child's wreath

Chapter 3: Illustrations
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A sequence of Shakespearean sonnets mourns a beloved child's early death, offering intimate portraits and recollected gestures set against meadows and garden flowers as sources of consolation. The poet balances personal sorrow with reflective faith, exploring loss, the hope of an afterlife, and the quiet duties of remembrance. Language remains restrained to avoid mawkishness, and the disciplined sonnet form channels tenderness into measured reflection. Throughout, nature imagery, domestic detail, and moral contemplation combine to turn private bereavement into a modest, elegiac lyric that honors the child's sweetness and contemplates endurance and consolation.

Illustrations

“Content I leave with God what once I missed” Frontispiece
“Round me the city looms, void, waste and wild” Page 23
“The jocund dance of wind-swept daffodils” 29
“From heaven to heaven, along an azure sea” 35
“O’er hill and dale, through waste and wood” 47
“Or heaven reflected in the serious face” 61