I’m trying to locate the author of a poem and what book I could find it in. On the CBS TV show Beauty and the Beast, the character Catherine read Vincent this poem:
To my most grievous loss? That thought’s return
Could to my sight that heavenly face restore.
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Normally Cecil tries to avoid name-that-tune-type questions, in large part because the Teeming Millions’ recollection of the words, title, or whatever is usually so scrambled as to make identification impossible. But poetry as a popular art is so nearly extinct I figure I should help out when I can. The poem, a sonnet entitled “Surprised by Joy,” was published in 1815 by William Wordsworth (1770-1850), one of the most prominent of English poets. The first lines are:
But Thee, deep buried in the silent tomb,
I’m amazed that you let slip by DS’s comment that Prince Andrew has no last name. The family’s last name is Windsor (changed from Hanover during World War I). –Mr. Bill, Waters’ Landing, Maryland
