Sonnets of this CenturyWilliam Sharp W. Scott, 1886 - 333 pagini |
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Pagina xxi
... wing is the best for rapid volant wheel and shift , as the heron's for mounting by wide gyrations , as that of the kite or the albatross for sustained suspension . To bring this more clearly home to the mind of the reader unacquainted ...
... wing is the best for rapid volant wheel and shift , as the heron's for mounting by wide gyrations , as that of the kite or the albatross for sustained suspension . To bring this more clearly home to the mind of the reader unacquainted ...
Pagina lxxiii
... wing ? How transcendently Shakespearian this beautiful opening of the sestet of the sonnet on page 188 : - The sunrise blooms and withers on the hill Like any hillflower ; and the noblest troth Dies here to dust ! On the sonnet - work ...
... wing ? How transcendently Shakespearian this beautiful opening of the sestet of the sonnet on page 188 : - The sunrise blooms and withers on the hill Like any hillflower ; and the noblest troth Dies here to dust ! On the sonnet - work ...
Pagina 4
... wings Lifting and sinking through the leafy nooks , Seethes with the clamour of a thousand rooks . Now every sound at length is hush'd away . These few are sacred moments . One more Day Drops in the shadowy gulf of bygone things . V ...
... wings Lifting and sinking through the leafy nooks , Seethes with the clamour of a thousand rooks . Now every sound at length is hush'd away . These few are sacred moments . One more Day Drops in the shadowy gulf of bygone things . V ...
Pagina 12
... wings endure . Yet is thy noblest still thy least secure , And failing thee - shall then thy love despair ? Shall not thy heart more holily prepare Some depth unfathomable , —perfect - pure ? Say that to thee there come Love's dreadful ...
... wings endure . Yet is thy noblest still thy least secure , And failing thee - shall then thy love despair ? Shall not thy heart more holily prepare Some depth unfathomable , —perfect - pure ? Say that to thee there come Love's dreadful ...
Pagina 27
... wings break into fire At either curved point , -what bitter wrong Can the earth do to us , that we should not long Be here contented ? Think . In mounting higher , The angels would press on us and aspire To drop some golden orb of ...
... wings break into fire At either curved point , -what bitter wrong Can the earth do to us , that we should not long Be here contented ? Think . In mounting higher , The angels would press on us and aspire To drop some golden orb of ...
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Sonnets of this Century: Ed. and Arranged, with a Critical Introduction on ... William Sharp Vizualizare completă - 1887 |
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Alcyone Art thou Aubrey De Vere beauty beneath bird blind breast breath bright brow calm cloud cold couplet Dante Gabriel Rossetti dark dead death deep delight dost doth dream earth English sonnet eternal eyes fair fate fatiguing physical fear flowers gaze gleam gloom glory golden grave Hall Caine hand Hartley Coleridge hath hear heart heaven Helen's Tower hill hope immortal Italian Leigh Hunt life's light lines lips living lone love thee love's melody mighty Milton moon mould murmur nature night o'er octave Ozymandias Petrarcan Poems poet poetic poetry pure quatrains rhyme-sounds rhymes Rossetti round seems sestet shadow Shakespeare Shakespearian shore sigh silence sing sleep smile soft song soul sound stars stream strive sweet tercets Theodore Watts thine things thou art thought verse voice volume wave weary wild wind wings Wordsworth writers
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Pagina lvi - Since there's no help. 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: Shake hands for ever. cancel all our vows. And when we meet at any time again. Be it not seen in either of our brows That we one jot of former love retain.
Pagina 114 - Homer ruled as his demesne : Yet did I never breathe its pure serene Till I heard Chapman speak out loud and bold: Then felt I like some watcher of the skies When a new planet swims into his ken ; Or like stout Cortez when with eagle eyes He...
Pagina 119 - Bright Star! would I were steadfast as thou art — Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night, And watching, with eternal lids apart, Like Nature's patient, sleepless Eremite, The moving waters at their priestlike task Of pure ablution round earth's human shores...
Pagina 202 - I MET a traveller from an antique land Who said : Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand, Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown, And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command, Tell that its sculptor well those passions read Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things, The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed. And on the pedestal these words appear: " My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair !
Pagina 264 - IT is a beauteous evening, calm and free, The holy time is quiet as a nun Breathless with adoration ; the broad sun Is sinking down in its tranquillity ; The gentleness of heaven...
Pagina 292 - THE poetry of earth is never dead : When all the birds are faint with the hot sun, And hide in cooling trees, a voice will run From hedge to hedge about the new-mown mead ; That is the Grasshopper's...
Pagina 256 - Two Voices are there ; one is of the Sea, One of the Mountains ; each a mighty Voice : In both from age to age Thou didst rejoice, They were thy chosen Music, Liberty...
Pagina lviii - Past reason hated, as a swallow'd bait, On purpose laid to make the taker mad: Mad in pursuit, and in possession so; Had, having, and in quest to have, extreme; A bliss in proof, — and prov'd, a very woe; Before, a joy propos'd; behind, a dream.
Pagina 34 - To fetters, and the damp vault's dayless gloom, Their country conquers with their martyrdom, And Freedom's fame finds wings on every wind.
Pagina 260 - Sleepless ! and soon the small birds' melodies Must hear, first uttered from my orchard trees ; And the first cuckoo's melancholy cry. Even thus last night, and two nights more, I lay, And could not win thee, Sleep ! by any stealth : So do not let me wear...