 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
 | John Milton - 1874 - 504 pages
...His visionary brow ; a glow-worm lamp, It cheered mild Spenser, called from Faery-land To strusrgle through dark ways ; and, when a damp Fell round the...he blew Soul-animating strains, —alas ! too few." Milton, however, is notable in the succession of chief Sonnet-writers, not only on account of the intrinsic... | |
 | William [poetical works Wordsworth (selections]) - 1874 - 96 pages
...Dante crowned His visionary brow ; a glow-worm lamp It cheered mild Spenser, called from fairy land i< To struggle through dark ways ; and when a damp Fell...his hand The thing became a trumpet ; whence he blew Soul animating strains, alas ! too few. THE WORLD AND NATURE. THE world is too much with us ; late... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1874 - 798 pages
...God ! the very houses seem asleep ; And all that mighty heart is lying still ! Ibid. Part ii. xxxvi. And, when a damp Fell round the path of Milton, in...he blew Soul-animating strains, — alas ! too few. • Ibid. Part ii. i. Soft is the music that would charm for ever ; The flower of sweetest smell is... | |
 | Samuel John Stone - 1875 - 103 pages
...Dante crowned His visionary brow; a glowworm lamp, It cheered mild Spenser, called from fairy-land To struggle through dark ways; and, when a damp Fell...he blew Soul-animating strains, — alas, too few ! " Shakspeare is the first here mentioned by Wordsworth, and rightly, since he is the poet beyond... | |
 | Marshall McLuhan - 1962 - 306 pages
...soothed 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 cheered...he blew Soul-animating strains — alas, too few! Many a trumpet solo was delivered by the press medium which would else never have been composed. The... | |
 | 1842 - 330 pages
...Dante crowned His visionary brow : a. glow-worm lamp, It cheered mild Spenser, called from Kaery-land To struggle through dark ways ; and when a damp Fell...whence he blew Soul-animating strains — alas, too few ! BURNING OF THE TOWER. BY GEORGE LUNT. O TOWER OF LONDON ! not the lurid flame Can cleanse the plague... | |
 | Max Kaluza - 1911 - 422 pages
...soothed 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 cheered...whence he blew Soul-animating strains — alas, too few ! (Wordsworth). You silvery billows breaking on the beach Fall back in foam beneath the star-shine... | |
 | John Hollander - 1990 - 280 pages
...soothed 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 cheered...he blew Soul-animating strains — alas, too few! Pragmatic schemata, like lists, catalogues, chronologies — usually ranked and ordered with respect... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1994 - 628 pages
...soothed 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 cheered...whence he blew Soul-animating strains - alas, too few! Yarrow Revisited The following Stanzas are a memorial of a day passed with Sir Walter Scott and other... | |
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