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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 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 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 217 - CYRIAC, this three years' day, these eyes, though clear, To outward view, of blemish or of spot, Bereft of light, their seeing have forgot ; Nor to their idle orbs doth sight appear Of sun, or moon, or star, throughout the year, Or man, or woman.
Page 133 - 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 185 - 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 85 - O Nightingale, that on yon bloomy spray Warblest at eve, when all the woods are still, Thou with fresh hope the lover's heart dost fill, While the jolly hours lead on propitious May.
Page 75 - MILTON ! thou should'st be living at this hour : England hath need of thee : she is a fen Of stagnant waters : altar, sword, and pen, Fireside, the heroic wealth of hall and bower, Have forfeited their ancient English dower Of inward happiness. We are selfish men ; Oh ! raise us up, return to us again ; And give us manners, virtue, freedom, power.
Page 193 - Then to advise how war may best, upheld, Move by her two main nerves, iron and gold. In all her equipage...
Page 131 - 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 213 - 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 221 - 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.
Page 199 - 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...