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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... things now do hold their peace , Heaven and earth disturbed in nothing ; The beasts , the air , the birds their song ... thing should rid my pain . 1 night's / pronounced with two syllables How Each Thing Save the Lover in Spring ...
... things now do hold their peace , Heaven and earth disturbed in nothing ; The beasts , the air , the birds their song ... thing should rid my pain . 1 night's / pronounced with two syllables How Each Thing Save the Lover in Spring ...
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... things prepare . But yet in vain thou hast my ruin sought ; In vain thou madest me to vain things aspire ; In vain thou kindlest all thy smoky fire ; For virtue hath this better lesson taught , - Within myself to seek my only hire ...
... things prepare . But yet in vain thou hast my ruin sought ; In vain thou madest me to vain things aspire ; In vain thou kindlest all thy smoky fire ; For virtue hath this better lesson taught , - Within myself to seek my only hire ...
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... thing so to immortalize ; For I myself shall like to this decay , And eke my name be wiped out likewise . Not so , quoth I ; let baser things devise To die in dust , but you shall live by fame : My verse your virtues rare shall eternize ...
... thing so to immortalize ; For I myself shall like to this decay , And eke my name be wiped out likewise . Not so , quoth I ; let baser things devise To die in dust , but you shall live by fame : My verse your virtues rare shall eternize ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Sir Thomas Wyatt | 19 |
George Gascoigne | 28 |
Copyright | |
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beauty beauty's behold birds born breast breath bright brow clouds Collected Poems Copyright dark dead dear death delight despair Donald Hall dost doth dream E. E. Cummings earth English eternal eyes face fair fame fear fire flowers glory grace green grief hand hate hath heart heaven heavenly hope John John Crowe Ransom kiss light lips live look Lord Louis MacNeice love thee love's lovers mind mistress mourn muse never night o'er Oxford pain passion Phyllis McGinley poet poetry praise proud published reprinted by permission rhyme Roy Fuller scorn sequence shalt shine sighs silence sing sleep smile song sonnet sorrow soul spirit spring stars sweet tears thine things Thomas Thomas Warton thou art thought unto verse Vincent Millay voice W. B. Yeats W. D. Snodgrass W. H. Auden wind wings X. J. Kennedy youth