Sonnets of this CenturyWilliam Sharp W. Scott, 1886 - 333 páginas |
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... move- ment , but sufficiently near to shed its influence over the poem back to the initial verse . " This is admirably expressed , and true so far as it goes , but to a far wider scope than ' sweetness ' does the Shakespearian sonnet ...
... move- ment , but sufficiently near to shed its influence over the poem back to the initial verse . " This is admirably expressed , and true so far as it goes , but to a far wider scope than ' sweetness ' does the Shakespearian sonnet ...
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... move us now hardly at all , but when we remember the season of their production we may well regard them with more kindly liberality . Bowles was born just eight years before William Wordsworth , to whom , more than any one else , is due ...
... move us now hardly at all , but when we remember the season of their production we may well regard them with more kindly liberality . Bowles was born just eight years before William Wordsworth , to whom , more than any one else , is due ...
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... moving in it as freely as a fish in a deep pool , as a bird in the windless air . The pathetic beauty , the fas- cinating personality , the pure poetry displayed in these sonnets have touched many and many a heart since the tired singer ...
... moving in it as freely as a fish in a deep pool , as a bird in the windless air . The pathetic beauty , the fas- cinating personality , the pure poetry displayed in these sonnets have touched many and many a heart since the tired singer ...
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... moves like a sweeping scimitar , and I know that an eagle is passing from peak to lonely peak . Away for a brief space - from the turmoil and many conflicting interests of the great city , ' mother of joys and woes , ' I realise the ...
... moves like a sweeping scimitar , and I know that an eagle is passing from peak to lonely peak . Away for a brief space - from the turmoil and many conflicting interests of the great city , ' mother of joys and woes , ' I realise the ...
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... sepulchre in solemn stand ; The night - word passed , from man to man conveyed ; And I could see those women rise and go Under the dark trees moving sad and slow . II . AUTUMNAL SONNET . Now Autumn's fire burns slowly HENRY ALFORD . I.
... sepulchre in solemn stand ; The night - word passed , from man to man conveyed ; And I could see those women rise and go Under the dark trees moving sad and slow . II . AUTUMNAL SONNET . Now Autumn's fire burns slowly HENRY ALFORD . I.
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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...