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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... flowers unfold , Than that applause vain honor doth bequeath ! How sweet are streams to poison drunk in gold ! The world is full of horrors , falsehoods , slights , Woods ' silent shades have only true delights . FROM FLOWERS OF SION ...
... flowers unfold , Than that applause vain honor doth bequeath ! How sweet are streams to poison drunk in gold ! The world is full of horrors , falsehoods , slights , Woods ' silent shades have only true delights . FROM FLOWERS OF SION ...
Page 288
... flowers , but works of human kind ; The pleasant weed a fragrant pleasure yields , The briar and broomwood shaken by the wind , The thorn and bramble o'er the water shoot A finer flower than gardens e'er gave birth , The aged huntsman ...
... flowers , but works of human kind ; The pleasant weed a fragrant pleasure yields , The briar and broomwood shaken by the wind , The thorn and bramble o'er the water shoot A finer flower than gardens e'er gave birth , The aged huntsman ...
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... flowers who are not yet gone West ? May those have flowers who live with death and lice ? This must be the floweriest place That earth allows ; the queenly face Of the proud mansion borrows grace for grace Spite of those brute guns ...
... flowers who are not yet gone West ? May those have flowers who live with death and lice ? This must be the floweriest place That earth allows ; the queenly face Of the proud mansion borrows grace for grace Spite of those brute guns ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Sir Thomas Wyatt | 19 |
George Gascoigne | 28 |
Copyright | |
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