English Sonnets: A SelectionJohn Dennis |
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Page 54
... darkness born , Relieve my languish , and restore the light : With dark forgetting of my care return , And let the day be time enough to mourn The shipwreck of my ill - adventured youth : Let waking eyes suffice to wail their scorn ...
... darkness born , Relieve my languish , and restore the light : With dark forgetting of my care return , And let the day be time enough to mourn The shipwreck of my ill - adventured youth : Let waking eyes suffice to wail their scorn ...
Page 86
... darker now grows life's unhappy day , a Dark with new clouds of evil yet to come , Her pencil sickening Fancy throws away , a And weary Hope reclines upon the tomb ; And points my wishes to that tranquil shore , Where the pale spectre ...
... darker now grows life's unhappy day , a Dark with new clouds of evil yet to come , Her pencil sickening Fancy throws away , a And weary Hope reclines upon the tomb ; And points my wishes to that tranquil shore , Where the pale spectre ...
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... dark with ominous clouds , That lower their gloomful faces to the earth ; When all things sweet and fair are cloaked in shrouds , And dire calamity and care have birth ; When furious tempests strip the woodland green , And from bare ...
... dark with ominous clouds , That lower their gloomful faces to the earth ; When all things sweet and fair are cloaked in shrouds , And dire calamity and care have birth ; When furious tempests strip the woodland green , And from bare ...
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beauty behold bird breath bright charm dark DAVID GRAY dear death delight divine dost doth dream earth EDMUND SPENSER ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING English Sonnets eternal eyes fade fair Faith fame fear feel flowers friends glory grace grief happy HARTLEY COLERIDGE hast hath heart heaven heavenly HEMANS HENRY CONSTABLE honour hope JOHN KEATS JOHN KEBLE JOHN MILTON JULIAN FANE Lady language light live look Lord love thee Love's Massey's mind Mistress morn Muse never night o'er passion Petrarch pleasure poems poet poet's poetical poetry praise pray SAMUEL DANIEL Shakespeare shine sight silent sing sleep song sonnet writer sorrow soul sound SPEARE spirit SURREY sweet tears thine things THOMAS WARTON thou art thought toil verse voice weary weep WILLIAM CALDWELL ROSCOE WILLIAM DRUMMOND WILLIAM LISLE BOWLES WILLIAM SHAKE WILLIAM WORDS Wordsworth WORTH youth