Three Hundred English SonnetsDavid M. Main Blackwood, 1886 - 320 страници |
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... Like some grave mighty thought threading a dream And times and things , as in that vision , seem Keeping along it their eternal stands , - Caves , pillars , pyramids , the shepherd bands That roamed through the young world , the glory ...
... Like some grave mighty thought threading a dream And times and things , as in that vision , seem Keeping along it their eternal stands , - Caves , pillars , pyramids , the shepherd bands That roamed through the young world , the glory ...
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bear beauty behold birds blessed born breath bright brings child clear close clouds dark dead dear death deep delight doth dream earth eternal eyes face fade fair Faith fall fear feel flowers friends glory gold grace green grow hand happy hast hath hear heart heaven heavenly hills hold honour hope hour leaves light live look meet memory mind morn mortal Muse Nature never night notes o'er once pass peace pleasure poor praise pure rest rise rose round seen sense shadow shine sight silent sing sleep soft song sonnet sorrow soul sound spirit spring stars stream summer sweet tears thee thine things thou thought touch true truth turn voice weep winds wings youth
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Страница 53 - 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.
Страница 51 - 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...
Страница 195 - 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...
Страница 69 - When in the chronicle of wasted time I see descriptions of the fairest wights, And beauty making beautiful old rhyme, In praise of ladies dead, and lovely knights ; Then, in the blazon of sweet beauty's best, Of hand, of foot, of lip, of eye, of brow, I see their antique pen would have express'd Even such a beauty as you master now.
Страница 57 - Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore, So do our minutes hasten to their end; Each changing place with that which goes before, In sequent toil all forwards do contend.
Страница 180 - To fetters, and the damp vault's dayless gloom, Their country conquers with their martyrdom, And Freedom's fame finds wings on every wind.
Страница 71 - Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments. Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove. O, no! it is an ever-fixed mark That looks on tempests and is never shaken; It is the star to every wandering bark, Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.
Страница 116 - In vain to me the smiling mornings shine, And reddening Phoebus lifts his golden fire : The birds in vain their amorous descant join, Or cheerful fields resume their green attire. These ears, alas ! for other notes repine ; A different object do these eyes require ; My lonely anguish melts no heart but mine ; And in my breast the imperfect joys expire...
Страница 137 - 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 broods o'er the Sea: Listen!
Страница 174 - Night ! when our first parent knew Thee from report divine, and heard thy name, Did he not tremble for this lovely frame, This glorious canopy of light and blue ? Yet 'neath a curtain of translucent dew, Bathed in the rays of the great setting flame, Hesperus with the host of heaven came, And lo ! creation widened in man's view.