 Mindless of its just honours ; with this key Shakespeare unlocked his heart; the melody Of this small lute gave ease to Petrarch's wound; A thousand times this pipe did Tasso sound; With it Camoens soothed an exile's grief ; The sonnet glittered a gay...  The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth - Page 119by William Wordsworth - 1828 - 340 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1854 - 456 pages
...with it an exile's grief; The Sonnet glittered a gay myrtle-leaf Amid the cypress with which Dante crowned His visionary brow ; a glow-worm lamp, It...he blew Soul-animating strains, — alas, too few! EXPERIENCE. —Jane Taylor. How false is found, as on in life we go, Our early estimate of bliss and... | |
 | 1855 - 458 pages
...with it an exile's grief; The Sonnet glittered a gay myrtle-leaf Amid the cypress with which Dante crowned His visionary brow ; a glow-worm lamp, It...he blew Soul-animating strains, — alas, too few! EXPERIENCE. Jane Taylor. How false is found, as on in life we go, Our early estimate of bliss and woe... | |
 | Anna Cabot Lowell - 1855 - 452 pages
...with it an exile's grief; The Sonnet glittered a gay myrtle-leaf Amid the cypress with which Dante crowned His visionary brow ; a glow-worm lamp, It...he blew Soul-animating strains, — alas, too few! EXPERIENCE. fane Taylor. How false is found, as on in life we go, Our early estimate of bliss and woe... | |
 | Henry Reed - 1855 - 424 pages
...myrtle-leaf Amid the cypress with which Dante crowned His visionary brow ; a glow-worm lamp, It cheer'd mild Spenser, called from Faery-land To struggle through...whence he blew Soul-animating strains — alas, too few '." It is the poets who have best revealed the hidden harmony that lies in our short Saxon-English... | |
 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - 1855 - 590 pages
...cypress with which Dante crown'd His visionary hrow ; a glowworm lamp, It chccr'd mild Spenser, call'd from Faery-land To struggle through dark ways ; and,...whence he blew Soul-animating strains — alas, too few ! The sonnet, from its very brevity, and from its completeness within itself, has an advantage over... | |
 | Henry Reed - 1855 - 416 pages
...rnyrtle-leaf Amid the cypress with which Dante crowned His visionary brow ; a glow-worm lamp, It cheer'd mild Spenser, called from Faery-land To struggle through...of Milton, in his hand The thing became a trumpet; when he blew Soul-animating strains — alas, too few I" It is the poets who have best revealed the... | |
 | Henry Reed - 1855 - 404 pages
...myrtle-leaf Amid the cypress with which Dante crowned His visionary brow ; a glow-worm lamp, It cheer'd mild Spenser, called from Faery-land To struggle through...of Milton, in his hand The thing became a trumpet; when he blew Soul-animating strains — alas, too few !" It is the poets who have best revealed the... | |
 | Edwin Paxton Hood - 1856 - 590 pages
...Critic, you have frowned Mindless of its just honours ; with this key Shakspeare unlocked his heart : — A glow-worm lamp, It cheered mild Spenser, called...his hand The thing became a trumpet ; whence he blew Soul animating strains — alas, too few ! ' Loving the Sonnet thus, it is not wonderful that we find... | |
 | Edwin Paxton Hood - 1856 - 556 pages
...Critic, you have frowned Mindless of its just honours ; with this key Shakspcare unlocked his heart : — A glow-worm lamp, It cheered mild Spenser, called...dark ways ; and, when a damp Fell round the path of Hilton, in his hand The thing became a trumpet ; whence he blew Soul animating strains — alas, too... | |
 | William Alfred Jones - 1857 - 310 pages
...with it an exile's grief; The Sonnet glittered a gay myrtle leaf Amid the cypress with which Dante crowned His visionary brow ; a glow-worm lamp, It...whence he blew Soul-animating strains — alas, too few ! Since the time of Milton, sonnet-writing has been little in vogue, until the commencement of the... | |
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