Sonnets and CanzonetsClassic Textbooks, 1882 - 149 pagine |
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16 THE SONNET accents Amor passate aught ballad birds bless breathe bright bring BRONSON ALCOTT CHANNING cheerful Dante Dante's delight Donne dost thou dream dwell Edinburgh University eloquence eyes F. B. SANBORN fair ladies fancy fellowship friends friendship's genius gentle glowing golden grace grief groves hand happy hath Heaven hour humor Huntress interfused Italian sonnet keep kiss Landor late learning light lips living Lord Love's lovers Margaret Fuller melodious metaphysical Milton mind morrow Muse Ne'er night nobility noble o'er OCTOGENARIAN passion Piedmont Plato poems Poesy poet poetical PROEM quatrains rare reader regicide resounding rhyme saints SCORN sense shade Shakespeare sing Slavery's sleep smile sonnets and canzonets soul sparkling spirit spring tell tender terza rima thee thine thing Thoreau thou art thou didst thou hast thought throne thy dear thyself true truth verse Vita Nuova voice weary Whilst wise words Wordsworth youth
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Pagina 34 - Not mine own fears, nor the prophetic soul Of the wide world dreaming on things to come, Can yet the lease of my true love control, Supposed as forfeit to a confined doom.
Pagina 68 - Ye blessed Creatures, I have heard the call Ye to each other make ; I see The heavens laugh with you in your jubilee ; My heart is at your festival, My head hath its coronal, The fulness of your bliss, I feel - I feel it all.
Pagina 28 - Thy liquid notes that close the eye of day, First heard before the shallow cuckoo's bill, Portend success in love; O if Jove's will Have link'd that amorous power to thy soft lay, Now timely sing, ere the rude bird of hate Foretell my hopeless doom in some grove nigh...
Pagina 72 - STERN Daughter of the Voice of God ! O Duty ! if that name thou love Who art a light to guide, a rod To check the erring, and reprove ; Thou, who art victory and law When empty terrors overawe, From vain temptations dost set free, And calm'st the weary strife of frail humanity!
Pagina 29 - Athenian walls from ruin bare. IX. [TO A VIRTUOUS YOUNG LADY.] LADY, that in the prime of earliest youth Wisely hast shunned the broad way and the green, And with those few art eminently seen That labour up the hill of heavenly Truth, The better part with Mary and with Ruth Chosen thou hast...
Pagina 140 - Nothing is here for tears, nothing to wail Or knock the breast, no weakness, no contempt. Dispraise or blame, nothing but well and fair. And what may quiet us in a death so noble.
Pagina 54 - If I may trust the flattering truth of sleep My dreams presage some joyful news at hand. My bosom's lord sits lightly in his throne, And all this day an unaccustom'd spirit Lifts me above the ground with cheerful thoughts.
Pagina 144 - Thou hast left behind Powers that will work for thee; air, earth, and skies; There's not a breathing of the common wind That will forget thee; thou hast great allies; Thy friends are exultations, agonies, And love, and man's unconquerable mind.
Pagina 28 - 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.
Pagina 122 - Happy art thou, whom God does bless With the full choice of thine own happiness ; And happier yet, because thou'rt blest With prudence how to choose the best. In books and gardens, thou hast...
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