English Sonnets by Poets of the Past

Samuel Waddington

G. Bell and Sons, 1888 - Sonnets, English - 238 pages

Contents

• Easter Morning: 1
• Since Natures works: 7
• To the River Ankor: 13
• Remembrance William Shakespeare: 15
• Sunshine and Cloud William Shakespeare: 16
• The True and the False William Shakespeare: 17
• The Worlds Way William Shakespeare: 18
• Lifes Autumn William Shakespeare: 19
• The Triumph of Death William Shakespeare: 20
• The Garden of Love William Shakespeare: 21
• The forward Violet thus did I chide William Shakespeare: 22
• Hope against Hope William Shakespeare: 23
• The Beauty of Beauties William Shakespeare: 24
• True Love William Shakespeare: 25
• A Picture William Shakespeare: 26
• Soul and Body William Shakespeare: 27
• Content Barnabe Barnes: 28
• The Talent Barnabe Barnes: 29
• To Death John Donne: 30
• Mary Magdalen William Drummond: 31
• Human Frailty William Drummond: 32
• Sweet Spring thou turnst with all thy goodly train William Drummond: 33
• Before a Poem of Irene William Drummond: 34
• No Trust in Time William Drummond: 35
• Alexis here she stayed among these pines William Drummond: 36
• Trust not sweet soul those curled waves of gold William Drummond: 37
• Down in a valley by a forests side William Browne: 38
• A rose as fair as ever: 39
• You say I love not cause I: 41
• The Nightingale John Milton: 47
• To Dampier Benjamin Stillingfleet: 53
• On Dugdales Monasticon: 58
• On Parting with his Books William Roscoe: 64
• Could then the babes from: 70
• How sweet it is when: 76
• A PoetHe hath put his heart to school William Wordsworth: 81
• watch and long have watched with calm regret William Wordsworth: 82
• thought of thee my part ner and my guide William Wordsworth: 83
• November 1806 William Wordsworth: 84
• London 1802 William Wordsworth: 85
• A Parsonage in Oxfordshire William Wordsworth: 86
• Nature Samuel Taylor Coleridge: 87
• Fancy in Nubibus Samuel Taylor Coleridge: 88
• The Autumnal Moon Samuel Taylor Coleridge: 89
• Farewell to Love Samuel Taylor Coleridge: 90
• ask not riches and I ask not power Henry Francis Cary: 91
• The Mariner Robert Southey: 92
• To a Friend Charles Lamb: 93
• Το Innocence Charles Lamb: 94
• In Christian world Mary the garland wears Charles Lamb: 95
• Night and Death Blanco White: 96
• Eternal and Omnipotent Unseen Horace Smith: 97
• On the Statue of a Piping Faun Horace Smith: 98
• On a GreenHouse Horace Smith: 99
• The Harvest Moon Lord Thurlow: 100
• To a Water Bird Lord Thurlow: 101
• Το Amoret Lord Thurlow: 102
• Fountains Abbey Ebenezer Elliott: 103
• The Grasshopper and: 104
• Is this the spot where: 110
• Go up among the moun: 116
• The Firefly: 122
• Life: 124
• The Love of God I: 130
• Flight of the Spirit: 136
• Solitude: 142
• November: 148
• When we were idlers with the loitering rills Hartley Coleridge: 150
• To a Lofty Beauty Hartley Coleridge: 151
• The First Man Hartley Coleridge: 152
• A Confession Hartley Coleridge: 153
• Homer Hartley Coleridge: 154
• Whither is gone the wis dom and the power Hartley Coleridge: 155
• We parted on the moun tains as two streams Hartley Coleridge: 156
• The Lone Thorn William Motherwell: 157
• Autumn Thomas Hood: 158
• Silence Thomas Hood: 159
• It is not death that some time in a sigh Thomas Hood: 160
• A Sonnet to a Sonnet Thomas Hood: 161
• Joy in Sorrow Chauncy Hare Townshend: 162
• Hidden Joys Samuel Laman Blanchard: 163
• Pater Vester Pascit Illa Robert Stephen Hawker: 164
• The Twain Robert Stephen Hawker: 165
• Love Helena C Von Ranke: 166
• The Lattice at Sunrise Charles Tennyson Turner: 167
• On Startling some Pigeons Charles Tennyson Turner: 168
• Time and Twilight Charles Tennyson Turner: 169
• It was her first sweet child Charles Tennyson Turner: 170
• A Summer Twilight Charles Tennyson Turner: 171
• The Quiet Tide near Ar drossan Charles Tennyson Turner: 172
• Lettys Globe Charles Tennyson Turner: 173
• The Forest Glade Charles Tennyson Turner: 174
• The GossamerLight Charles Tennyson Turner: 175
• In and out of the Pine Wood Charles Tennyson Turner: 176
• Irreparableness Elizabeth Barrett Browning: 177
• Grief Elizabeth Barrett Browning: 178
• Finite and Infinite Elizabeth Barrett Browning: 179
• Comfort Elizabeth Barrett Browning: 180
• Futurity Elizabeth Barrett Browning: 181
• The Prospect Elizabeth Barrett Browning: 182
• thought once how Theocritus had sung Elizabeth Barrett Browning: 183
• My own beloved who hast lifted me Elizabeth Barrett Browning: 184
• If thou must love me let it be for nought Elizabeth Barrett Browning: 185
• Is it indeed so? If I lay here dead Elizabeth Barrett Browning: 186
• How do I love thee? Let me count the ways Elizabeth Barrett Browning: 187
• Beloved thou hast brought me many flowers Elizabeth Barrett Browning: 188
• If I might choose where my tired limbs shall lie John Anster: 189
• To the British Oak Charles Crocker: 190
• Not war nor hurrying troops from plain to plain Henry Alford: 191
• The Masters Call Henry Alford: 192
• But deck the boardfor hither comes a band Henry Alford: 193
• To Mary Henry Alford: 194
• Lady I bid thee to a sunny dome Arthur Henry Hallam: 195
• Oh blessing and delight of my young heart Arthur Henry Hallam: 196
• To the Authoress of Our Village Charles Kingsley: 197
• On the Ramparts at Angouleme Frederick William Faber: 198
• Our thoughts are greater than ourselves our dreams Frederick William Faber: 199
• Like a musician that with flying finger William Caldwell Roscoe: 200
• Sad soul whom God re suming what He gave William Caldwell Roscoe: 201
• Solitude Thomas Noel: 202
• Times Waves Thomas Noel: 203
• The Aconite Thomas Noel: 204
• Beauty still walketh on the earth and air Alexander Smith: 205
• To America Sydney Dobell: 206
• To a Friend in Bereave ment Sydney Dobell: 207
• Ad Matrem 1862 Julian Fane: 208
• Ad Matrem 1864 Julian Fane: 209
• Ad Matrem 1870 Julian Fane: 210
• Brother and Sister George Eliot: 211
• Brother and Sister George Eliot: 212
• A Disappointment Alice Mary Blunt: 213
• To a Brooklet David Gray: 214
• The Luggie David Gray: 215
• Sunset George Morine: 216

Popular passages

Page 17 - O, how much more doth beauty beauteous seem, By that sweet ornament which truth doth give ! The rose looks fair, but fairer we it deem For that sweet odour which doth in it live. The canker-blooms have full as deep a dye As the perfumed tincture of the roses...

Page 83 - Still glides the Stream, and shall for ever glide; The Form remains, the Function never dies ; While we, the brave, the mighty, and the wise, We Men, who in our morn of youth defied The elements, must vanish ; — be it so ! Enough, if something from our hands have power To live, and act, and serve the future hour ; And if, as toward the silent tomb we go, Through love, through hope, and faith's transcendent dower, We feel that we are greater than we know.

Page 16 - Full many a glorious morning have I seen Flatter the mountain-tops with sovereign eye, Kissing with golden face the meadows green, Gilding pale streams with heavenly alchemy; Anon permit the basest clouds to ride With ugly rack on his celestial face, And from the forlorn world his visage hide, Stealing unseen to west with this disgrace.

Page 73 - Two Voices are there ; one is of the Sea, One of the Mountains ; each a mighty Voice : In both from age to age Thou didst rejoice, They were thy chosen Music, Liberty...

Page 24 - When in the chronicle of wasted time I see descriptions of the fairest wights, And beauty making beautiful old rhyme, In praise of ladies dead, and lovely knights ; Then, in the blazon of sweet beauty's best, Of hand, of foot, of lip, of eye, of brow, I see their antique pen would have express'd Even such a beauty as you master now.

Page 71 - IT is a beauteous evening, calm and free ; The holy time is quiet as a Nun Breathless with adoration...

Page 139 - Homer ruled as his demesne ; Yet did I never breathe its pure serene Till I heard Chapman speak out loud and bold : Then felt I like some watcher of the skies When a new planet swims into his ken ; Or like stout Cortez when with eagle eyes He...

Page 15 - When to the sessions of sweet silent thought I summon up remembrance of things past, I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought, And with old woes new wail my dear time's waste...

Page 121 - To fetters, and the damp vault's dayless gloom, Their country conquers with their martyrdom, And Freedom's fame finds wings on every wind.

Page 25 - Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments. Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove : O, no ! it is an ever-fixed mark That looks on tempests and is never shaken ; It is the star to every wandering bark, Whose worth "s unknown, although his height be taken.

Bibliographic information

• Title: English Sonnets by Poets of the Past; Chiswick series
• Editor: Samuel Waddington
• Edition: 2
• Publisher: G. Bell and Sons, 1888
• Original from: Harvard University
• Digitized: Feb 25, 2008
• Length: 238 pages