A treasury of English sonnets, ed. with notes by D.M. MainDavid M. Main 1880 |
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... countenance , like a goodly banner , Spreads in defiance of all enemies . Was never in this world ought worthy tried , Without some spark of such self - pleasing pride . X ( 8 ) EDMUND SPENSER 1352 ? -1599 MORE English Sonnets 5.
... countenance , like a goodly banner , Spreads in defiance of all enemies . Was never in this world ought worthy tried , Without some spark of such self - pleasing pride . X ( 8 ) EDMUND SPENSER 1352 ? -1599 MORE English Sonnets 5.
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... never ; Well is he born that may behold you ever . XI ( 17 ) THE glorious portrait of that Angel's face , Made to amaze weak men's confused skill , And this world's worthless glory to embase ; What pen , what pencil , can express her ...
... never ; Well is he born that may behold you ever . XI ( 17 ) THE glorious portrait of that Angel's face , Made to amaze weak men's confused skill , And this world's worthless glory to embase ; What pen , what pencil , can express her ...
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... never taketh rust : What ever fades but fading pleasure brings . Draw in thy beams , and humble all thy might To that sweet yoke where lasting freedoms be , Which breaks the clouds and opens forth the light That doth both shine and give ...
... never taketh rust : What ever fades but fading pleasure brings . Draw in thy beams , and humble all thy might To that sweet yoke where lasting freedoms be , Which breaks the clouds and opens forth the light That doth both shine and give ...
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... never move ; Love is not in my heart , no , lady , no : My heart is love itself ; till I forego My heart , I never can my love remove . How shall I then leave love ? I do intend Not to crave grace , but yet to wish it still ; Not to ...
... never move ; Love is not in my heart , no , lady , no : My heart is love itself ; till I forego My heart , I never can my love remove . How shall I then leave love ? I do intend Not to crave grace , but yet to wish it still ; Not to ...
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... never yet let in to see The majesty and riches of the mind , But dwell in darkness ; for your god is blind . XLI I SAW the object of my pining thought GEORGE CHAPMAN 1557-1634 THOMAS WATSON Within a garden of sweet Nature's placing ...
... never yet let in to see The majesty and riches of the mind , But dwell in darkness ; for your god is blind . XLI I SAW the object of my pining thought GEORGE CHAPMAN 1557-1634 THOMAS WATSON Within a garden of sweet Nature's placing ...
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Page 40 - 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.
Page 115 - Mysterious 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.
Page 24 - O, how much more doth beauty beauteous seem By that sweet ornament which truth doth give! 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...
Page 22 - 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.
Page 34 - 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...
Page 39 - 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.
Page 96 - 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...
Page 130 - 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!
Page 21 - Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer's lease hath all too short a date...
Page 143 - 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...