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ABBA ABBA Amor bloomy canzone Carm Catherine Thomson colle aspro Cromwell cuckoo Cyriac Skinner Cyriack Dante Darwen Defensio Diodati Donna leggiadra doth edition of 1673 English epithet eyes fair Fairfax feeling 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 soul spray stanza Surrey tercets Tetrachordon 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 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 89 - The turtle to her mate hath told her tale. Summer is come, for every spray now springs: The hart hath hung his old head on the pale; The buck in brake his winter coat he flings ; The fishes flete with new repaired scale.
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 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 219 - Purification in the 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 211 - Warble immortal notes and Tuscan air? He who of those delights can judge, and spare To interpose them oft, is not unwise. XXI. [TO CYRIACK SKINNER.] CYRIACK, whose grandsire on the royal bench Of British Themis, with no mean applause, Pronounced, and in his volumes taught, our laws: Which others at their bar so often wrench...
Page 215 - This thought might lead me through the world's vain mask Content, though blind, had I no better guide.
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 95 - Yet, be it less or more, or soon or slow, It shall be still in strictest measure even 10 To that same lot, however mean or high, Toward which Time leads me, and the will of Heaven ; All is, if I have grace to use it so, As ever in my great Task-Master's eye.