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An immersive reading ‘O could my wandering breeze-pinioned mind’ by Henry Derozio with reflection on anxiety and therapy

Poem:

O! could my wandering, breeze-pinioned mind 
 True brotherhood in earthborn spirit find. 
 One that might ever on unflagging wings 
 Companion me in my imaginings, 
 One that from earth could take its earthliness. 
 And robe it with the mind’s own light — ’twould bless 
 The wheeling of existence — we should rise 
 Like wild twin comets hurrying through the skies, 
 Or swift as starshoots dart into the chasms 
 Of earlier planets. These enthusiasms 
 Which ceaseless glow in my volcanic brain. 
 Because unshared, have ever brought me pain, 
 And left my mind in dark, despairing mood 
 To feel, and think upon its solitude. — 

References

Henry Derozio: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Louis_Vivian_Derozio 

Sonnet: https://scalar.lehigh.edu/derozio/sonnet-o-could-my-wandering-breeze-pinioned-mind?path=fakeer-of-jungheera-a-metrical-tale-and-other-poems-1828 

Grech T, Marks A. Existential Suffering Part 1: Definition and Diagnosis. Fast Facts.  https://www.mypcnow.org/fast-fact/existential-suffering-part-1-definition-and-diagnosis/  

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