Camoens soothed an exile's grief; The Sonnet glittered a gay myrtle leaf Amid the cypress with which Dante crowned His visionary brow: a glow-worm lamp, It cheered mild Spenser, called from Faery-land To struggle through dark ways ; and when a damp Fell... John Bannister Tabb: The Priest-poet - Page 107by M. S. Pine - 1915 - 153 pagesFull view - About this book
| William [poetical works Wordsworth (selections]) - 1874 - 96 pages
...health ! THE SONNET. SCORN not the sonnet, critic ; you have frowned Mindless of its just honours ; with this key Shakespeare unlocked his heart ; the...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... | |
| John Milton - 1874 - 518 pages
...Milton's time : — '' Scorn not the Sonnet : Critic, you have frowned, Mindless of its just honours ! With this key Shakespeare unlocked his heart ; the...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... | |
| Readers and speakers - 1875 - 448 pages
...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...wound ; A thousand times this pipe did Tasso sound ; Camoens soothed with it an exile's grief; The Sonnet glittered a gay myrtle leaf Amid the cypress... | |
| Henry Norman Hudson - English poetry - 1875 - 728 pages
...Sonnet; Critic, you have frown'd, Mindless of its just honours: with this key Shakespeare unlock'd his heart; the melody Of this small lute gave ease...wound; A thousand times this pipe did Tasso sound; With it Camoens soothed an exile's grief: The Sonnet glitter'da gay myrtle leaf Amid the cypress with... | |
| Samuel John Stone - Poetry - 1875 - 103 pages
...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; Jt INTRO D UCTION. A thousand times this pipe did Tasso sound; Camoens soothed with it an exile's grief... | |
| Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1876 - 610 pages
...how, again, to others it was the medicine of lifelong sorrows ; as when the melody Of this small late gave ease to Petrarch's wound ; A thousand times this pipe did Tasso sound -, And Camoens soothed with it an exile's grief. In like manner, in the history of the several other great... | |
| 1877 - 652 pages
...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...wound ; A thousand times this Pipe did Tasso sound ; Camoens soothed with it an exile's grief ; The Sonnet glittered a gay myrtle Leaf Amid the cypress... | |
| George Henry Calvert - Literary Criticism - 1878 - 246 pages
...on the Sonnet : — " Scorn not the Sonnet : Critic, you have frowned, Mindless of its just honors ; with this key Shakespeare unlocked his heart ; the...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... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1878 - 262 pages
...scales 1 THE SONNET. SCORN not the Sonnet ; Critic, you have frowned, Mindless of its just 'wnors ; with this key Shakespeare unlocked his heart; the...wound; A thousand times this pipe did Tasso sound ; With it Camoens sootl ed an exile's grief; The Sonnet glittered a gay myrtle leaf Amid the cypress... | |
| Sir Henry Taylor - 1878 - 378 pages
...of the art : — " Scorn not the Sonnet ; Critic, you have frowned, Mindless of its just honours ; with this key Shakespeare unlocked his heart ; the...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... | |
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