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" In vain to me the smiling mornings shine, And reddening Phoebus lifts his golden fire : The birds in vain their amorous descant join, Or cheerful fields resume their green attire. These ears, alas ! for other notes repine ; A different object do these... "
The Poetics of Disappointment: Wordsworth to Ashbery - Page 23
by Laura Quinney - 1999
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The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, Volume 5

William Wordsworth - English poetry - 1854 - 388 pages
...composition, and was more than any other man curiously elaborate in the structure of his own poetic diction. " In vain to me the smiling mornings shine, And reddening Phoebus lifts his golden Bre : The birds in vain their amorous descant join, Or cheerful fields resume their green attire. These...
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The pleasures of hope, Gertrude of Wyoming, and other poems. To which are ...

Thomas Campbell - 1854 - 278 pages
...ride, SONNET ON THE DEATH OF MR. RICHARD WEST.* IN vain to me the smiling Mornings shine, And redd'ning Phoebus lifts his golden fire! The birds in vain their amorous descant join; A different object do these eyes require: My lonely anguish melts no heart but mine; Or cheerful fields...
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The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an ..., Volume 3

Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1854 - 766 pages
...lines, which either precede or follow, in the position of the words. i Ji " A different object do thete eyes require ; My lonely anguish melts no heart but mine ; And in my breaft the imperfect joyt expire" * T * But were it otherwise, what would this prove, but a truth,...
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The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth: In Six Volumes, Volume 6

William Wordsworth - 1857 - 472 pages
...composition, and was more than any other man curiously elaborate in the structure of his own poetic diction. ' In vain to me the smiling mornings shine, And reddening...different object do these eyes require ; My lonely an9uish melts no heart but mine; And in my breast ike imperfect joys expire ; Yet morning smiles the...
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The Works of Thomas Gray, Volume 1

Thomas Gray - 1857 - 360 pages
...WEST. [See WS Landori Poemata, p. 186.] IN vain to me the smiling mornings shine, And redd'ning Phosbus lifts his golden fire : The birds in vain their amorous...attire : These ears, alas ! for other notes repine 5 A different object do these eyes require : My lonely anguish melts no heart but mine ; And in my...
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Brownson's Quarterly Review, Volume 2

Orestes Augustus Brownson - American essays - 1857 - 572 pages
...Alas ! what are all these joys to the soul, so long as deeper needs deprive us of their enjoyment ? ' A different object do these eyes require ; My lonely anguish melts no heart but mine ; And in my heart the imperfect joys expire.' — GKAY. "All sacrifices would be to us as steps to bliss, and renunciation...
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The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an ..., Volume 3

Samuel Taylor Coleridge - English literature - 1858 - 770 pages
...quotes Gray's sonnet — " In vain to me the smiling mornings shine, And reddening Phcebus lifts bis golden fire ; The birds in vain their amorous descant...fields resume their green attire. These ears, alas 1 for other notes repine ; A different object do these eyes require ; My lonely anguish melts no heart...
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The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth ...

William Wordsworth - English poetry - 1859 - 386 pages
...composition, and was more than any other man curiously elaborate in the structure of his own poetic diction, "In vain to me the smiling mornings shine, And reddening...cheerful fields resume their green attire. These ears, ulas! for other notes repine ; S\ V~A different object do these eyeg require?^ >y* "My lonely anguish...
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The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth ...

William Wordsworth - English poetry - 1859 - 384 pages
...in vain their amorous descant join, Or cheerful fields resume their green attire. These ears, alns! for other notes repine ; A different object do these...no heart but mine ; And in my breast the imperfect jiiyt expire ; Yet morning smiles the busy race to cheer, And new-born pleasure brings to happier men...
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Evenings with the poets and sketches of their favourite scenes, by the ...

Evenings - 1860 - 386 pages
...WEST.* In vain to me the smiling mornings shine, And redd'ning Phoebus lifts his golden fire ; The birda in vain their amorous descant join, Or cheerful fields...anguish melts no heart but mine, And in my breast th' imperfect joys expire. Yet morning smiles the busy race to cheer, And new-born pleasures bring...
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