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Pagina lviii
The expense of spirit in a waste of shame Is lust in action ; and till action , lust Is perjured , murderous , bloody , full of blame , Savage , extreme , rude , cruel , not to trust , Enjoy'd no sooner but despised straight , l'ast ...
The expense of spirit in a waste of shame Is lust in action ; and till action , lust Is perjured , murderous , bloody , full of blame , Savage , extreme , rude , cruel , not to trust , Enjoy'd no sooner but despised straight , l'ast ...
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Sonnets of this Century: Ed. and Arranged, with a Critical Introduction on ... William Sharp Volledige weergave - 1887 |
Veelvoorkomende woorden en zinsdelen
arrangement beauty beneath breath bright called century close cloud cold continuity couplet critic dark dead death deep dream earth English English sonnet epigram example expression eyes face fair fall fear flow greater hand hear heart heaven hill hope human Italian Italy language latter leaves less lies life's light lines living look lost love's melody Milton mould move nature never night o'er octave once pass Petrarcan poem poet poetic poetry present pure quatrains question recognised rest rhymes Rossetti round seems sense sestet shadow Shakespeare Shakespearian silence sleep soft song sonnet soul sound stand stars stream sweet terminals thee thine things thou thought true variations voice volume waters wave wide wind wings Wordsworth writers wrote
Populaire passages
Pagina lvi - 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.
Pagina 114 - 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...
Pagina 119 - Bright Star! would I were steadfast as thou art — Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night, And watching, with eternal lids apart, Like Nature's patient, sleepless Eremite, The moving waters at their priestlike task Of pure ablution round earth's human shores...
Pagina 202 - I MET a traveller from an antique land Who said : Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand, Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown, And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command, Tell that its sculptor well those passions read Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things, The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed. And on the pedestal these words appear: " My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair !
Pagina 264 - 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...
Pagina 292 - THE poetry of earth is never dead : When all the birds are faint with the hot sun, And hide in cooling trees, a voice will run From hedge to hedge about the new-mown mead ; That is the Grasshopper's...
Pagina 256 - 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...
Pagina lviii - Past reason hated, as a swallow'd bait, On purpose laid to make the taker mad: Mad in pursuit, and in possession so; Had, having, and in quest to have, extreme; A bliss in proof, — and prov'd, a very woe; Before, a joy propos'd; behind, a dream.
Pagina 34 - To fetters, and the damp vault's dayless gloom, Their country conquers with their martyrdom, And Freedom's fame finds wings on every wind.
Pagina 260 - Sleepless ! and soon the small birds' melodies Must hear, first uttered from my orchard trees ; And the first cuckoo's melancholy cry. Even thus last night, and two nights more, I lay, And could not win thee, Sleep ! by any stealth : So do not let me wear...