Laura: Or, An Anthology of Sonnets, (on the Petrarcan Model,) and Elegiac Quatuorzains: English, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German; Original and Translated ; Great Part Never Before Published, Volume 2R. Taylor, 1814 - English poetry |
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... feels that she wants defence Against the anguish of a wounded Ileart ? 2 . Remember , ANNA , if she brought relief When sharp Affliction occupied thy breast ; How with some moments of suspended Grief She strove to lengthen out thy short ...
... feels that she wants defence Against the anguish of a wounded Ileart ? 2 . Remember , ANNA , if she brought relief When sharp Affliction occupied thy breast ; How with some moments of suspended Grief She strove to lengthen out thy short ...
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... believe ? But now I feel that I am doom'd to grieve ; And to perpetual Tears : —and mid my sighs Reflect , what most delights Fate for least time will leave . 26 Jul . 1803. C. L. VIII . DI PETRARCA . ( CCLXXII . ) NE SONNET .
... believe ? But now I feel that I am doom'd to grieve ; And to perpetual Tears : —and mid my sighs Reflect , what most delights Fate for least time will leave . 26 Jul . 1803. C. L. VIII . DI PETRARCA . ( CCLXXII . ) NE SONNET .
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... feels no native bias , never gains One energy of Will that does not rise From some external cause , to which he hies From his own blank inanity . - When reigns With a strong cultur'd Mind , this wretched hate To commune with himself ...
... feels no native bias , never gains One energy of Will that does not rise From some external cause , to which he hies From his own blank inanity . - When reigns With a strong cultur'd Mind , this wretched hate To commune with himself ...
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... Feels itself equal to whate'er decrees Are in the hidden Depths of Fate enroll'd ; Whether the ' illumin'd paths of Ease to tread , Or brave the Night of Storms by stern Affliction spread Dec. 1800. S. W. F. * Pleasures of Memory . LIII ...
... Feels itself equal to whate'er decrees Are in the hidden Depths of Fate enroll'd ; Whether the ' illumin'd paths of Ease to tread , Or brave the Night of Storms by stern Affliction spread Dec. 1800. S. W. F. * Pleasures of Memory . LIII ...
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... feeling fir'd ; Imagination's earliest flights inspir'd ; And its faint powers to firmer aim inclin'd . 3 . And must ... feels stern Trial's thorn . 22 Jul : 1801. S. W. F. LXII . ELEGIAC . ΤΟ THE AUTHOR OF THE PRECEDING QUATUORZAIN .
... feeling fir'd ; Imagination's earliest flights inspir'd ; And its faint powers to firmer aim inclin'd . 3 . And must ... feels stern Trial's thorn . 22 Jul : 1801. S. W. F. LXII . ELEGIAC . ΤΟ THE AUTHOR OF THE PRECEDING QUATUORZAIN .
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Amor ANNE BANNERMAN beam Beauty beneath blest Bliss bloom bosom breast breathe bright CHARLOTTE SMITH charm chear Ciel dark dear Death delight DI PETRARCA divine dolce e'en Earth ELEGIAC fair Fate Flowers fond gale gentle glide gloom glow Grace green Grief hast hath Heart Heaven HELEN MARIA WILLIAMS HENRY KIRKE WHITE hope hopes and fears hour Life's light lonely lov'd Love lustre Lyre meco Melody mild MILTON Mind MISS SARAH WATSON mourn murmurs Muse Nature's Night numbers Nymph o'er occhi pale pensier pensive PETRARCA piagge Pity pleasure POEMS Pommi praise QUATUORZAIN rest ROBERT BLOOMFIELD SARAH WATSON FINCH scene SEWARD shade shine sighs smile soft Song SONNET soothe Sorrow Soul Spirit strains stream sweet tear tender thee thine thou thought thy majesty TRANSLATION TROSTON Vale Vide wandering weep wild Winds wizzard wonted Youth ΤΟ
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Page cxxxv - 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.
Page cii - 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...
Page cvii - The turtle to her mate hath told her tale. Summer is come, for every spray now springs: The hart hath hung his old head on the pale; The buck in brake his winter coat he flings ; The fishes flete with new repaired scale.
Page cix - When I have seen the hungry ocean gain Advantage on the kingdom of the shore, And the firm soil win of the watery main, Increasing store with loss, and loss with store; When I have seen such interchange of state, Or state itself confounded to decay ; Ruin hath taught me thus to ruminate, That Time will come and take my love away. This thought is as a death, which cannot choose But weep to have that which it fears to lose.
Page xxix - Sweet echo, sweetest nymph, that liv'st unseen Within thy airy shell By slow Meander's margent green, And in the violet-embroidered vale Where the love-lorn nightingale Nightly to thee her sad song mourneth well: Canst thou not tell me of a gentle pair That likest thy Narcissus are? O, if thou have Hid them in some flowery cave, Tell me but where, Sweet Queen of Parley, Daughter of the Sphere! So may'st thou be translated to the skies, And give resounding grace to all Heaven's harmonies!
Page xlvi - Perhaps my semblance might deceive the truth That I to manhood am arrived so near ; And inward ripeness doth much less appear, That some more timely-happy spirits endu'th.
Page cii - And in my breast the imperfect joys expire; Yet morning smiles the busy race to cheer, And new-born pleasure brings to happier men; The fields to all their wonted tribute bear; To warm their little loves the birds complain. I fruitless mourn to him that cannot hear, And weep the more because I weep in vain.
Page xlvi - Yet be it less or more, or soon or slow, It shall be still in strictest measure even To that same lot, however mean or high, Toward which Time leads me, and the will of Heaven ; All is, if I have grace to use it so, As ever in my great Task-Master's eye.
Page lxxxix - 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.
Page cxlviii - 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...