 Desiring this man's art, and that man's scope, With what I most enjoy contented least; Yet in these thoughts myself almost despising, Haply I think on thee, and then my state, Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth, sings hymns at...  Macbeth ; Poems and sonnets. Glossary - Page 219by William Shakespeare - 1867Full view - About this book
 | William Shakespeare - 1804 - 268 pages
...think on thee, and then my state, Like to the lark, at break of day arising From sullen earth, to sing at heaven's gate. For thy sweet love remember'd, such...brings, That then I scorn to change my state with kings. CRUEL DECEIT. THE UNCONSTANT LOVER. CRUEL DECEIT. SCARCE had the sun dry'd up the dewy morn, And scarce... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1808 - 224 pages
...FRIENDSHIP. \Vhen to the sessions of sweet silent thought, I summon up remembrance of things past, I sigh ihe lack of many a thing I sought, And with old woes new...wail my dear time's waste. Then can I drown an eye (unus'd to flow) For precious friends hid in death's dateless night, And weep afresh love's long since... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 728 pages
...despising, Haply I think on thee — and then my state ( Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen Earth) sings hymns at Heaven's gate; For thy...brings, That then I scorn to change my state with kings. SONNET XXX. WH«N to the sessions of sweet silent thought I summon up remembrance of things past, I... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1812 - 372 pages
...tho' excellent in neither. THE BENEFIT OF FRIENDSHIP. When to the sessions of sweet silent thought, I summon up remembrance of things past, , I sigh the...sought, And with old woes new wail my dear time's waste. Thtn can I drown an eye (unus'd to flow) For precious friends hid in death's dateless nightr And weep... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1812 - 380 pages
...think on thee, and then my state, Like to the lark, at break of day arising From sullen earth, to sing at heaven's gate.* For thy sweet love remember'd,...brings, That then I scorn to change my state with kings. CRUEL DECEIT. Scarce had the sun dry'd op the dewy morn, And scarce the herd gone to the hedge for... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1817 - 392 pages
...Haply I think on thee,—and then my state • • . (Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth) sings hymns at heaven's gate; For thy...That then I scorn to change my state with kings." NOVELTY. " My love is strengthen'd, though more weak in seeming ; I love not less, though less the... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1818 - 342 pages
...despising, Haply I think on thee, — and then my state (Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth) sings hymns at heaven's gate; For thy...That then I scorn to change my state with kings.'' NOVELTY. " My love is strengthen'd, though more weak in seeming ; 1 love not less, though lesi the... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1821 - 486 pages
...That then I scorn to change my state with kings. XXX. When to the sessions of sweet silent thought I summon up remembrance of things past, I sigh the...sought, And with old woes new wail my dear time's waste 2 : Then can I drown an eye, unus'd to flow 3, For precious friends hid in death's dateless night4,... | |
 | English literature - 1835 - 564 pages
...despising, Haply I think on thee, — and then 'my state (Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth) sings hymns at heaven's gate ; For thy...brings, That then I scorn to change my state with kings t." What manner of man might that be whose art or scope Shakspeare needed to desire ! But this is a... | |
 | Gaius Valerius Catullus - Rome - 1821 - 172 pages
...sonnet much resembling it in idea and expression. " When to the sessions of sweet silent thought, " I summon up remembrance of things past, " I sigh the...a thing I sought, " And with old woes new wail my time's dear waste. " Then can I drown an eye (unused to flow,) " For precious friends hid in death's... | |
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