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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Page 217
... smiling mornings shine , And redd'ning Phoebus lifts his golden fire ; The birds in vain their amorous descant join ... smiles the busy race to cheer , And newborn pleasure brings to happier men : The fields to all their wonted tribute ...
... smiling mornings shine , And redd'ning Phoebus lifts his golden fire ; The birds in vain their amorous descant join ... smiles the busy race to cheer , And newborn pleasure brings to happier men : The fields to all their wonted tribute ...
Page 292
... smile more , departing , distant sun ! One mellow smile through the soft vapory air , Ere , o'er the frozen earth , the loud winds run , Or snows are sifted o'er the meadows bare . One smile on the brown hills and naked trees , And the ...
... smile more , departing , distant sun ! One mellow smile through the soft vapory air , Ere , o'er the frozen earth , the loud winds run , Or snows are sifted o'er the meadows bare . One smile on the brown hills and naked trees , And the ...
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... smile comes very old , Learnt of the happy dead that laughed with gods ; For earlier suns than ours have lent you gold , Sly fauns and trees have given you jigs and nods . But soon your heart , hot - beating like a bird's , Shall slow ...
... smile comes very old , Learnt of the happy dead that laughed with gods ; For earlier suns than ours have lent you gold , Sly fauns and trees have given you jigs and nods . But soon your heart , hot - beating like a bird's , Shall slow ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Sir Thomas Wyatt | 19 |
George Gascoigne | 28 |
Copyright | |
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