Sonnets of Three Centuries: A Selection Including Many Examples Hitherto UnpublishedSir Hall Caine Page proofs for the first edition, bound in red binder's cloth. Inscribed "This is the Revise Proof. A good number of additions & alterations were afterwards made. The proof is valuable as containing certain corrections (as in the cases of Watts's sonnets) which it was found too late to set right in type. 1882. THC." With Caine's ms. revisions and markings. The contributors include the three Rossettis, Oliver Madox Brown, Richard Watson Dixon, Dobson, Philip Bourke Marston, Swinburne, John Addington Symonds, and William Bell Scott. |
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... passing an unbroken flood of harmony . In English , however , it is not always possible to achieve so much without injury to the fundamental quality of thought , nor would it always in a series ( where variety is an added grace ) be ...
... passing an unbroken flood of harmony . In English , however , it is not always possible to achieve so much without injury to the fundamental quality of thought , nor would it always in a series ( where variety is an added grace ) be ...
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... sure Thou , when the Bridegroom with his feastful friends Passes to bliss at the mid - hour of night , Hast gained thy entrance , Virgin wise and pure . To TO THE LORD GENERAL CROMWELL . ROMWELL , our 40 JOHN MILTON .
... sure Thou , when the Bridegroom with his feastful friends Passes to bliss at the mid - hour of night , Hast gained thy entrance , Virgin wise and pure . To TO THE LORD GENERAL CROMWELL . ROMWELL , our 40 JOHN MILTON .
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... pass by A sight so touching in its majesty : This city now doth like a garment wear The beauty of the morning ; silent , bare , Ships , towers , domes , theatres , and temples lie Open unto the fields and to the sky ; All bright and ...
... pass by A sight so touching in its majesty : This city now doth like a garment wear The beauty of the morning ; silent , bare , Ships , towers , domes , theatres , and temples lie Open unto the fields and to the sky ; All bright and ...
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... pass ; Oh sweet and tiny cousins , that belong One to the fields , the other to the hearth , Both have your sunshine ; both , though small , are strong At your clear hearts ; and both were sent on earth To sing in thoughtful ears this ...
... pass ; Oh sweet and tiny cousins , that belong One to the fields , the other to the hearth , Both have your sunshine ; both , though small , are strong At your clear hearts ; and both were sent on earth To sing in thoughtful ears this ...
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... passing o'er the high - born Hebrew line , He forms the vessel of His vast design ; Fatherless , homeless , reft of age and place , Severed from earth , and careless of its wreck , Born through long woe His rare Melchizedek . ON THE ...
... passing o'er the high - born Hebrew line , He forms the vessel of His vast design ; Fatherless , homeless , reft of age and place , Severed from earth , and careless of its wreck , Born through long woe His rare Melchizedek . ON THE ...
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Alfred Tennyson appears beauty behold breath bright calm child cloud Coleridge dark dead death dost doth Drayton dream earth English sonnet eternal eyes fair flowers genius glad songs grief hand Hartley Hartley Coleridge hath heart heaven HENRY hope hour Italian JOHN John Keats Keats Keats's Lamb language life's light living lone Lord Love's lovers memory metrical mighty Milton mind moon morning nature never night o'er octave October Song Ozymandias pale passion Petrarch Petrarchian poem poet poetic rest rhymes River Duddon Rock of Cashel round seems sestet shadows Shakspeare Shakspeare's Shelley sight silence sing skies sleep smile soft song sonnet-writers soul spirit Spring stars sweet tears thee thine things thou art thought Toussaint L'Ouverture unto Venetian Republic verse voice weep WILLIAM William Rowan Hamilton wilt wind wings Wordsworth written youth
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Page 13 - 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 10 - 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 28 - Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for, thou art not so, For, those, whom thou think'st, thou dost overthrow, Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me. From rest and sleep, which but thy pictures...
Page 12 - 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...
Page 273 - It may be safely affirmed that there neither is, nor can be, any essential difference between the language of prose and metrical composition.
Page 11 - When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes, I all alone beweep my outcast state, And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries, And look upon myself, and curse my fate, Wishing me like to one more rich in hope, Featured like him, like him with friends possess'd, Desiring this man's art and that man's scope...
Page 77 - To fetters, and the damp vault's dayless gloom, Their country conquers with their martyrdom, And Freedom's fame finds wings on every wind.
Page 24 - 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 46 - 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...
Page 3 - With how sad steps, O Moon, thou climb'st the skies ; How silently ; and with how wan a face ! What ! may it be, that even in heavenly place That busy Archer his sharp arrows tries...