Sonnets of this CenturyWilliam Sharp W. Scott, 1886 - 333 páginas |
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... Shakespeare's hands that the English sonnet first became immutably established in our literature . These magnificent poems - magnificent nothwithstanding many minor flaws - must always hold their high place , not only as the personal ...
... Shakespeare's hands that the English sonnet first became immutably established in our literature . These magnificent poems - magnificent nothwithstanding many minor flaws - must always hold their high place , not only as the personal ...
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... Shakespeare's , these two poets stand above Wordsworth ; but in impersonal humanity Shakespeare rarely , Rossetti a little less rarely , approach the highest reach of one who in general is their poetic inferior . For what great poet at ...
... Shakespeare's , these two poets stand above Wordsworth ; but in impersonal humanity Shakespeare rarely , Rossetti a little less rarely , approach the highest reach of one who in general is their poetic inferior . For what great poet at ...
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... Shakespeare's Poems and wrote in it this sonnet beginning Bright star , would I were steadfast as thou art , ' returning the volume to Severn , to whom he had presented it a few days previously . It is among the most pathetic " last ...
... Shakespeare's Poems and wrote in it this sonnet beginning Bright star , would I were steadfast as thou art , ' returning the volume to Severn , to whom he had presented it a few days previously . It is among the most pathetic " last ...
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... Shakespeare's Songs and Sonnets . Quite recently he was elected to the Chair of Poetry at Oxford , vacant by the death of the late Principal Shairp . Some thirty years ago Mr. Palgrave published his Idylls and Songs , and in 1871 his ...
... Shakespeare's Songs and Sonnets . Quite recently he was elected to the Chair of Poetry at Oxford , vacant by the death of the late Principal Shairp . Some thirty years ago Mr. Palgrave published his Idylls and Songs , and in 1871 his ...
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... Shakespeare's , the beauty of Mrs. Browning's , the dignity and , occasionally , the sunlit trans- parency of Wordsworth's , with a greater depth and richness of sound , a more startling and impressive vehemence , a greater ...
... Shakespeare's , the beauty of Mrs. Browning's , the dignity and , occasionally , the sunlit trans- parency of Wordsworth's , with a greater depth and richness of sound , a more startling and impressive vehemence , a greater ...
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Términos y frases comunes
Alcyone Art thou Aubrey De Vere beauty beneath bird blind breast breath bright brow calm cloud cold couplet Dante Gabriel Rossetti dark dead death deep delight dost doth dream earth English sonnet eternal eyes fair fate fatiguing physical fear flowers gaze gleam gloom glory golden grave Hall Caine hand Hartley Coleridge hath hear heart heaven Helen's Tower hill hope immortal Italian Leigh Hunt life's light lines lips living lone love thee love's melody mighty Milton moon mould murmur nature night o'er octave Ozymandias Petrarcan Poems poet poetic poetry pure quatrains rhyme-sounds rhymes Rossetti round seems sestet shadow Shakespeare Shakespearian shore sigh silence sing sleep smile soft song soul sound stars stream strive sweet tercets Theodore Watts thine things thou art thought verse voice volume wave weary wild wind wings Wordsworth writers
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Página lvi - Since there's no help. 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: Shake hands for ever. cancel all our vows. And when we meet at any time again. Be it not seen in either of our brows That we one jot of former love retain.
Página 114 - 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...
Página 119 - Bright Star! would I were steadfast as thou art — Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night, And watching, with eternal lids apart, Like Nature's patient, sleepless Eremite, The moving waters at their priestlike task Of pure ablution round earth's human shores...
Página 202 - I MET a traveller from an antique land Who said : Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand, Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown, And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command, Tell that its sculptor well those passions read Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things, The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed. And on the pedestal these words appear: " My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair !
Página 264 - IT is a beauteous evening, calm and free, The holy time is quiet as a nun Breathless with adoration ; the broad sun Is sinking down in its tranquillity ; The gentleness of heaven...
Página 292 - THE 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...
Página 256 - Two Voices are there ; one is of the Sea, One of the Mountains ; each a mighty Voice : In both from age to age Thou didst rejoice, They were thy chosen Music, Liberty...
Página lviii - Past reason hated, as a swallow'd bait, On purpose laid to make the taker mad: Mad in pursuit, and in possession so; Had, having, and in quest to have, extreme; A bliss in proof, — and prov'd, a very woe; Before, a joy propos'd; behind, a dream.
Página 34 - To fetters, and the damp vault's dayless gloom, Their country conquers with their martyrdom, And Freedom's fame finds wings on every wind.
Página 260 - Sleepless ! and soon the small birds' melodies Must hear, first uttered from my orchard trees ; And the first cuckoo's melancholy cry. Even thus last night, and two nights more, I lay, And could not win thee, Sleep ! by any stealth : So do not let me wear...