The Sonnet: A Comprehensive Anthology of British and American Sonnets from the Renaissance to the Present, Volume 10Robert Morton Bender, Charles L. Squier An introduction to and presentation of sonnets in the English language from Wyatt and Surrey to the 1960s. |
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... Bright star ! would I were steadfast as thou art " Bright star ! would I were steadfast as thou art— Not in lone splendor hung aloft the night And watching , with eternal lids apart , Like nature's patient , sleepless Eremite , The ...
... Bright star ! would I were steadfast as thou art " Bright star ! would I were steadfast as thou art— Not in lone splendor hung aloft the night And watching , with eternal lids apart , Like nature's patient , sleepless Eremite , The ...
Page 413
... Bright Because he was a butcher and thereby Did earn an honest living ( and did right ) , I would not have you think that Reuben Bright Was any more a brute than you or I ; For when they told him that his wife must die , He stared at ...
... Bright Because he was a butcher and thereby Did earn an honest living ( and did right ) , I would not have you think that Reuben Bright Was any more a brute than you or I ; For when they told him that his wife must die , He stared at ...
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... bright , careless of hate and fate , careless of care . Spring the word as it must , the leaf or flower broken or bruised , yet let it , broken , speak of time transcending this too transient hour , and space that finds the beating ...
... bright , careless of hate and fate , careless of care . Spring the word as it must , the leaf or flower broken or bruised , yet let it , broken , speak of time transcending this too transient hour , and space that finds the beating ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Sir Thomas Wyatt | 19 |
George Gascoigne | 28 |
Copyright | |
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