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A Selection from the Sonnets of William Wordsworth: With Illustrations (Classic Reprint)
A Selection from the Sonnets of William Wordsworth With Illustrations - Classic Reprint Author:William Wordsworth NUNS fret not at their convent's narrow room; And hermits are contented with their cells; And students with their pensive citadels; Maids at the wheel, the weaver at his loom, Sit blithe and happy; bees that soar for bloom, High as the highest Peak of Furness-fells, Will murmur by the hour in foxglove bells: In truth the prison, unto which we do... more »om Ourselves, no prison is: and hence for me, In sundry moods, 'twas pastime to be bound Within the Sonnet's scanty plot of ground; Pleased if some Souls (for such there needs must be) Who have felt the weight of too much liberty, Should find brief solace there, as I have found. SCORN not the Sonnet; Critic, you have frowned, Mindless of its just honours; with this key Shakspeare unlocked his heart; the melody Of this small lute gave ease to Petrarch's wound; A thousand times this pipe,did Tasso sound; With it Camoens soothed an exile's grief; The Sonnet glittered a gay myrtle leaf Amid the cypress with which Dante crowned His visionary bro
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First Lines of Sonnets Nuns fret not at their convent's narrow room Scorn not the Sonnet; Critic, you have frowned Calm is all nature as a resting wheel / watch, and long have -watched, xvith calm regret How clear, bow keen, how marvellously bright While not a leaf seems faded; while the fields ''There is a pleasure in poetic pains" Ye sacred Nurseries of blooming Youth/ Where holy ground begins, unhallowed ends Hail, Twilight, sovereign of one peaceful hour Mark the concentred hazels that enclose If with old love of you, dear Hills > 1 share Though the bold wings of Poesy affect Pclion and Ossa flourish side by side A flock of sheep that leisurely pass by Fond words have oft been spoken to thee, Sleep I Eden ! till now thy beauty had I viewed ; 9;« less