Specimens of English SonnetsW. Pickering, 1833 - 224 pages |
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... ought do care though some above me sit ; Nor hope nor wish another course to frame , But that which once may win thy cruel heart : Thou art my wit , and thou my virtue art . SIR PHILIP SIDNEY . HAVING this day my horse , 10.
... ought do care though some above me sit ; Nor hope nor wish another course to frame , But that which once may win thy cruel heart : Thou art my wit , and thou my virtue art . SIR PHILIP SIDNEY . HAVING this day my horse , 10.
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... hope , who love , who live but thee ; Thine eyes my pride , thy lips mine history : If thou praise not , all other praise is shame . Nor so ambitious am I , as to frame A nest for my young praise in laurel tree : In truth I swear , I ...
... hope , who love , who live but thee ; Thine eyes my pride , thy lips mine history : If thou praise not , all other praise is shame . Nor so ambitious am I , as to frame A nest for my young praise in laurel tree : In truth I swear , I ...
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... hope to love . So , when this thought my sorrow shall augment , That my own folly did procure my pain , Then shall I say , to give myself content , Obedience only made me love in vain : It was your will , and not my want of wit ; I have ...
... hope to love . So , when this thought my sorrow shall augment , That my own folly did procure my pain , Then shall I say , to give myself content , Obedience only made me love in vain : It was your will , and not my want of wit ; I have ...
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... hope of new delight ; And , bidding th ' old adieu , his passed date Bids all old thoughts to die in dumpish spright ; And calling forth out of sad Winter's night Fresh Love , that long hath slept in cheerless bower , Wills him awake ...
... hope of new delight ; And , bidding th ' old adieu , his passed date Bids all old thoughts to die in dumpish spright ; And calling forth out of sad Winter's night Fresh Love , that long hath slept in cheerless bower , Wills him awake ...
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... hope of your relenting mind ; For since it is the badge which I do bear , Ye , bearing it , do seem to me inclin'd : The power thereof , which oft in me I find , Let it likewise your gentle breast inspire With sweet infusion , and put ...
... hope of your relenting mind ; For since it is the badge which I do bear , Ye , bearing it , do seem to me inclin'd : The power thereof , which oft in me I find , Let it likewise your gentle breast inspire With sweet infusion , and put ...
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ANNA SEWARD beams beauty behold birds bliss bowers breast breath bright brow CHARLOTTE SMITH clouds CYRIACK SKINNER dark dear death delight dost EDMUND SPENSER eyes fade fair faith fame flowers grace green grief grove happy hath heart heaven heavenly HENRY CONSTABLE HENRY KIRKE WHITE honour hope JOHN BAMPFYLDE JOHN MILTON light live looks lov'd love's MICHAEL DRAYTON mind mirth morn mourn Muse never night o'er pale peace Poems praise pride publick rest rose round SAMUEL DANIEL shades shine shore sigh sight silent sing SIR PHILIP SIDNEY Sith sleep smiles songs Sonnet by William sorrow soul spring stars sweet tears thee thine THOMAS EDWARDS THOMAS WARTON thou art thou hast thou shalt thought truth verse virtue vols waste weep WILLIAM DRUMMOND WILLIAM LISLE BOWLES WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE WILLIAM WORDSWORTH winds wings winter youth
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Page 201 - MILTON ! thou shouldst be living at this hour : England hath need of thee : she is a fen Of stagnant waters : altar, sword, and pen, Fireside, the heroic wealth of hall and bower, Have forfeited their ancient English dower Of inward happiness. We are selfish men ; Oh ! raise us up, return to us again ; And give us manners, virtue, freedom, power.
Page 70 - That time of year thou may'st in me behold When yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang Upon those boughs which shake against the cold, Bare ruin'd choirs, where late the sweet birds sang. In me thou seest the twilight of such day, As after sunset fadeth in the west, Which by and by black night doth take away, Death's second self, that seals up all the rest.
Page 205 - Homer ruled as his demesne; Yet did I never breathe its pure serene Till I heard Chapman speak out loud and bold: Then felt I like some watcher of the skies When a new planet swims into his ken; Or like stout Cortez when with eagle eyes He stared at the Pacific — and all his men Look'd at each other with a wild surmise — Silent, upon a peak in Darien.
Page 197 - ONCE did she hold the gorgeous east in fee ; And was the safeguard of the west : the worth Of Venice did not fall below her birth, Venice, the eldest child of liberty. She was a maiden city, bright and free ; No guile seduced, no force could violate ; And, when she took unto herself a mate, She must espouse the everlasting sea.
Page 61 - So am I as the rich, whose blessed key Can bring him to his sweet up-locked treasure, The which he will not every hour survey, For blunting the fine point of seldom pleasure. Therefore are feasts so solemn and so rare, Since seldom coming, in the long year set, Like stones of worth they thinly placed are, Or captain* jewels in the carcanet.
Page 81 - When in the chronicle of wasted time I see descriptions of the fairest wights, And beauty making beautiful old rhyme, In praise of ladies dead, and lovely knights, Then, in the blazon of sweet beauty's best, Of hand, of foot, of lip, of eye, of brow, I see their antique pen would have expressed Even such a beauty as you master now.
Page 122 - I fondly ask. But Patience, to prevent That murmur, soon replies, 'God doth not need Either man's work or his own gifts. Who best Bear his mild yoke, they serve him best. His state Is kingly : thousands at his bidding speed, And post o'er land and ocean without rest; They also serve who only stand and wait.
Page 64 - Nor dare I chide the world-without-end hour Whilst I, my sovereign, watch the clock for you, Nor think the bitterness of absence sour When you have bid your servant once adieu ; Nor dare I question with my jealous thought Where you may be, or your affairs suppose, But, like a sad slave, stay and think of nought Save, where you are how happy you make those.
Page 71 - Why is my verse so barren of new pride, So far from variation or quick change ? Why, with the time, do I not glance aside To new-found methods and to compounds strange ? Why write I still all one, ever the same, And keep invention in a noted weed, • That every word doth almost tell my name, Showing their birth, and where they did proceed?
Page 72 - Then hate me when thou wilt ; if ever, now ; Now, while the world is bent my deeds to cross, Join with the spite of fortune...