SonnetsNew Amsterdam Book Company, 1904 - 227 pages |
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ABBA CD Amor bloomy canzone Carm colle aspro Cromwell cuckoo Cyriac Skinner Cyriack Dante Darwen Defensio Diodati Donna leggiadra doth edition of 1673 English epithet eyes fair Fairfax feeling Folio Shakspeare foreign form belong form of poem fourteen lines George Gascoigne graces Greek hast hearer heart heaven Henry honour Italian JOHN MILTON jolly Kings language Latin licence Lord Love's Mark Pattison Masson ment metrical Milton Milton's sonnets mood nightingale noble o'er occhi pamphlet Parliament Petrarch Petrarchian poet poetical poetry prefixed Presbyterian quatrains recognised rimes royalist rules Rump Parliament sense sestet Shakspeare's sonnets siege of Colchester sing song Sonnet 12 SONNET 21 Sonnet 9 soon hath soul spray stanza Surrey sweet tercets thee Thomas Magister thou thought tion tongue Translated by Cowper Translated by Langhorne Translated by Strutt twenty-four sonnets Vane verse virtue Vita Westminster Assembly words write written young youth
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Page 131 - Your name from hence immortal life shall have, Though I, once gone, to all the world must die: The earth can yield me but a common grave, When you entombed in men's eyes shall lie. Your monument shall be my gentle verse, Which eyes not yet created shall o'er-read, And tongues to be your being shall rehearse When all the breathers of this world are dead; You still shall live — such virtue hath my pen — Where breath most breathes, even in the mouths of men.
Page 183 - Hast reared God's trophies, and his work pursued ; While Darwen stream, with blood of Scots imbrued, And Dunbar field, resounds thy praises loud, And Worcester's laureate wreath...
Page 77 - WHAT needs my Shakespeare for his honoured bones The labour of an age in piled stones ? Or that his hallowed reliques should be hid Under a star-ypointing pyramid ? Dear son of memory, great heir of fame, What need'st thou such weak witness of thy name ? Thou in our wonder and astonishment Hast built thyself a livelong monument.
Page 153 - I did but prompt the age to quit their clogs By the known rules of ancient liberty, When straight a barbarous noise environs me Of owls and cuckoos, asses, apes, and dogs...
Page 219 - Old Law did save, And such as yet once more I trust to have Full sight of her in Heaven without restraint, Came vested all in white, pure as her mind. Her face was...
Page 167 - Phoebus' quire, That tunest their happiest lines in hymn or story. Dante shall give Fame leave to set thee higher Than his Casella, whom he wooed to sing, Met in the milder shades of Purgatory.
Page 129 - CAPTAIN or colonel, or knight in arms, Whose chance on these defenceless doors may seize, If deed of honour did thee ever please, Guard them, and him within protect from harms. He can requite thee, for he knows the charms That call fame on such gentle acts as these, And he can spread thy name o'er lands and seas, Whatever clime the sun's bright circle warms. Lift not thy spear against the Muses...
Page 73 - Thy soul was like a star, and dwelt apart: Thou hadst a voice whose sound was like the sea: Pure as the naked heavens, majestic, free, So didst thou travel on life's common way, In cheerful godliness; and yet thy heart The lowliest duties on herself did lay.
Page 197 - AVENGE, O Lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose bones Lie scattered on the Alpine mountains cold ; Even them who kept thy truth so pure of old, When all our fathers...
Page 197 - O'er all the Italian fields, where still doth sway The triple tyrant ; that from these may grow A hundredfold, who, having learnt thy way, Early may fly the Babylonian woe.