A Treasury of English SonnetsDavid M. Main A. Ireland and Company, 1880 - 470 páginas |
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... hath dimmed her trusty guide , Out of her course doth wander far astray , - So I , whose star , that wont with her bright ray Me to direct , with clouds is overcast , Do wander now in darkness and dismay , Through hidden perils round ...
... hath dimmed her trusty guide , Out of her course doth wander far astray , - So I , whose star , that wont with her bright ray Me to direct , with clouds is overcast , Do wander now in darkness and dismay , Through hidden perils round ...
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... hath bound , But simple truth and mutual good - will Seeks with sweet peace to salve each other's wound ; There Faith doth fearless dwell in brazen tower , And spotless Pleasure builds her sacred bower . EDMUND SPENSER 1552 ? -1599 ...
... hath bound , But simple truth and mutual good - will Seeks with sweet peace to salve each other's wound ; There Faith doth fearless dwell in brazen tower , And spotless Pleasure builds her sacred bower . EDMUND SPENSER 1552 ? -1599 ...
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... Derived from that fair Spirit from whom all true And perfect beauty did at first proceed . He only fair , and what He fair hath made ; All other fair , like flowers , untimely fade . XXIV ( 88 ) LIKE as the culver on the 12 A Treasury of.
... Derived from that fair Spirit from whom all true And perfect beauty did at first proceed . He only fair , and what He fair hath made ; All other fair , like flowers , untimely fade . XXIV ( 88 ) LIKE as the culver on the 12 A Treasury of.
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... hath done : For only the sweet fruit of this sweet tree Can give food to my Love , and life to me . HENRY CONSTABLE 1555 ? -1610 ? XXXVII NEEDS must I leave , and yet needs must I love ; In vain my wit doth paint in verse my woe ...
... hath done : For only the sweet fruit of this sweet tree Can give food to my Love , and life to me . HENRY CONSTABLE 1555 ? -1610 ? XXXVII NEEDS must I leave , and yet needs must I love ; In vain my wit doth paint in verse my woe ...
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... hath all too short a date : Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines , And often is his gold complexion dimmed ; And every fair from fair sometime declines , By chance or nature's changing course untrimmed ; But thy eternal summer ...
... hath all too short a date : Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines , And often is his gold complexion dimmed ; And every fair from fair sometime declines , By chance or nature's changing course untrimmed ; But thy eternal summer ...
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Palavras e frases frequentes
Barnabe Barnes beauty birds blest Book breath bright Charles Lamb CHARLES TENNYSON clouds dark dead dear death delight divine dost doth dream earth edition EDMUND SPENSER ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING English Sonnets eyes fair fancy fear flowers gentle glory golden grace green Grosart hand happy Hartley Coleridge hath heart heaven Henry honour John JOHN CLARE John Keats John Milton Keats Leigh Hunt light lines live Lord Love's memory Milton mind morn Muse never night o'er passion Poems poet poet's Poetical poetry praise printed rime rose Samuel Daniel says shadow Shakspeare's shine Sidney sight silent sing sleep soft song soul Spenser spirit spring star sweet tears tender thee thine things Thomas thou art thought unto verse voice William Caldwell Roscoe William Drummond WILLIAM SHAKSPEARE WILLIAM WORDSWORTH wind wings words writing written
Passagens conhecidas
Página 52 - Love's not Time's Fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come ; Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
Página 36 - The rose looks fair, but fairer we it deem For that sweet odour which doth in it live. The canker-blooms have full as deep a dye As the perfumed tincture of the roses...
Página 34 - Full many a glorious morning have I seen Flatter the mountain-tops with sovereign eye, Kissing with golden face the meadows green, Gilding pale streams with heavenly alchemy; Anon permit the basest clouds to ride With ugly rack on his celestial face, And from the forlorn world his visage hide, Stealing unseen to west with this disgrace.
Página 51 - O, for my sake do you with Fortune chide, The guilty goddess of my harmful deeds, That did not better for my life provide Than public means which public manners breeds. Thence comes it that my name receives a brand, And almost thence my nature is subdued To what it works in, like the dyer's hand.
Página 33 - When to the sessions of sweet silent thought I summon up remembrance of things past, I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought, And with old woes new wail my dear time's •waste...
Página 142 - If I were a dead leaf thou mightest bear; If I were a swift cloud to fly with thee; A wave to pant beneath thy power, and share The impulse of thy strength, only less free Than thou, O uncontrollable!
Página 27 - 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...
Página 46 - They that have power to hurt, and will do none, That do not do the thing they most do show, Who, moving others , are themselves as stone , Unmoved, cold, and to temptation slow ; They rightly do inherit heaven's graces, And husband nature's riches from expense ; They are the lords and owners of their faces , Others but stewards of their excellence. The summer's flower is to the summer sweet, Though to itself it only live and die...
Página 72 - How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth, Stolen on his wing my three-and-twentieth year! My hasting days fly on with full career, But my late spring no bud or blossom shew'th.
Página 289 - O may I join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead who live again In minds made better by their presence : live In pulses stirred to generosity, In deeds of daring rectitude, in scorn For miserable aims that end with self, In thoughts sublime that pierce the night like stars, And with their mild persistence urge men's search To vaster issues.