A Treasury of English SonnetsDavid M. Main |
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... poetry with a comprehensive Selection of the best original Son- nets known to the Editor , written by native English poets not living ; and to illustrate it from English poetical and prose literature . In pursuance of the plan adopted ...
... poetry with a comprehensive Selection of the best original Son- nets known to the Editor , written by native English poets not living ; and to illustrate it from English poetical and prose literature . In pursuance of the plan adopted ...
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... poet lies ; Such heavenly touches ne'er touched earthly faces . ' So should my papers , yellowed with their age , Be scorned like old men of less truth than tongue , And your true rights be termed a poet's rage , And stretched metre of ...
... poet lies ; Such heavenly touches ne'er touched earthly faces . ' So should my papers , yellowed with their age , Be scorned like old men of less truth than tongue , And your true rights be termed a poet's rage , And stretched metre of ...
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... poetic pains THE Which only Poets know : ' - ' twas rightly said ; Whom could the Muses else allure to tread Their smoothest paths , to wear their lightest chains ? When happiest Fancy has inspired the strains , How oft the malice of ...
... poetic pains THE Which only Poets know : ' - ' twas rightly said ; Whom could the Muses else allure to tread Their smoothest paths , to wear their lightest chains ? When happiest Fancy has inspired the strains , How oft the malice of ...
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... poetry of earth is never dead : When all the birds are faint with the hot sun , And hide in cooling trees , a voice will run From hedge to hedge about the new - mown mead ; That is the grasshopper's - he takes the lead In summer luxury ...
... poetry of earth is never dead : When all the birds are faint with the hot sun , And hide in cooling trees , a voice will run From hedge to hedge about the new - mown mead ; That is the grasshopper's - he takes the lead In summer luxury ...
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... poet of mankind , Who told'st in verse as mighty as the sea , And various as the voices of the wind , The strength of passion rising in the glee Of battle . Fear was glorified by thee , And Death is lovely in thy tale enshrined ...
... poet of mankind , Who told'st in verse as mighty as the sea , And various as the voices of the wind , The strength of passion rising in the glee Of battle . Fear was glorified by thee , And Death is lovely in thy tale enshrined ...
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Barnabe Barnes beauty birds blest Book breath bright Charles Lamb CHARLES TENNYSON clouds dark dead dear death delight divine dost doth dream earth edition EDMUND SPENSER ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING English Sonnets eyes fair fancy fear flowers gentle glory golden grace green Grosart hand happy Hartley Coleridge hath heart heaven Henry honour John JOHN CLARE John Keats John Milton Keats Leigh Hunt light lines live Lord Love's memory Milton mind morn Muse never night o'er passion Poems poet poet's Poetical poetry praise printed rime rose Samuel Daniel says shadow Shakspeare's shine Sidney sight silent sing sleep soft song soul Spenser spirit spring star sweet tears tender thee thine things Thomas thou art thought unto verse voice William Caldwell Roscoe William Drummond WILLIAM SHAKSPEARE WILLIAM WORDSWORTH wind wings words writing written
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Page 52 - Love's not Time's Fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come ; Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
Page 36 - The rose looks fair, but fairer we it deem For that sweet odour which doth in it live. The canker-blooms have full as deep a dye As the perfumed tincture of the roses...
Page 34 - Full many a glorious morning have I seen Flatter the mountain-tops with sovereign eye, Kissing with golden face the meadows green, Gilding pale streams with heavenly alchemy; Anon permit the basest clouds to ride With ugly rack on his celestial face, And from the forlorn world his visage hide, Stealing unseen to west with this disgrace.
Page 51 - O, for my sake do you with Fortune chide, The guilty goddess of my harmful deeds, That did not better for my life provide Than public means which public manners breeds. Thence comes it that my name receives a brand, And almost thence my nature is subdued To what it works in, like the dyer's hand.
Page 33 - When to the sessions of sweet silent thought I summon up remembrance of things past, I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought, And with old woes new wail my dear time's •waste...
Page 142 - If I were a dead leaf thou mightest bear; If I were a swift cloud to fly with thee; A wave to pant beneath thy power, and share The impulse of thy strength, only less free Than thou, O uncontrollable!
Page 27 - come let us kiss and part, — Nay I have done, you get no more of me; And I am glad, yea, glad with all my heart, That thus so cleanly I myself can free...
Page 46 - They that have power to hurt, and will do none, That do not do the thing they most do show, Who, moving others , are themselves as stone , Unmoved, cold, and to temptation slow ; They rightly do inherit heaven's graces, And husband nature's riches from expense ; They are the lords and owners of their faces , Others but stewards of their excellence. The summer's flower is to the summer sweet, Though to itself it only live and die...
Page 72 - How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth, Stolen on his wing my three-and-twentieth year! My hasting days fly on with full career, But my late spring no bud or blossom shew'th.
Page 289 - O may I join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead who live again In minds made better by their presence : live In pulses stirred to generosity, In deeds of daring rectitude, in scorn For miserable aims that end with self, In thoughts sublime that pierce the night like stars, And with their mild persistence urge men's search To vaster issues.