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" 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... "
Lectures on English Literature, from Chaucer to Tennyson - Page 224
by Henry Reed - 1860 - 387 pages
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Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale, Volume 1

William Shakespeare - 1872 - 480 pages
...glow-worm lamp, It cheer'd mild Spenser, call'd from Faery-land To struggle through dark ways ; and, when a damp Fell round the path of Milton, in his...he blew Soul-animating strains, — alas, too few ! " Now, here we have a place for every thing, and every thing in its place. There is nothing irrelevant,...
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The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, Volume 2

William Wordsworth - 1827 - 412 pages
...glow-worm Lamp, It cheered mild Spenser, called from Faery-land To struggle through dark ways ; and when a damp Fell round the path of Milton, in his...whence he blew Soul-animating strains — alas, too few ! II. NOT Love, nor War, nor the tumultuous swell Of civil conflict, nor the wrecks of change, Nor...
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The Sonnets of William Wordsworth

William Wordsworth - 1899 - 308 pages
...glow-worm lamp, It cheered mild Spenser, called from Faery-land To struggle through dark ways; and when a damp Fell round the path of Milton, in his...whence he blew Soul-animating strains — alas, too few ! A saunter How sweet it is, when mother Fancy rocks through The way ward brain, to saunter through...
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The Cambridge Book of Poetry and Song

Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1832 - 1022 pages
...fairy-land To struggle through dark ways; and, when a damp [hand Fell round the path of Milton, in his The thing became a trumpet, whence he blew Soul-animating strains — alas, too few ! IT is a beauteous evening, calm and free. The holy time is quiet as a nun Breathless with adoration...
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Specimens of English Sonnets

1833 - 240 pages
...glow-worm Lamp, It cheer'd mild Spenser, call'd from Faery-land To struggle through dark ways ; and, when a damp Fell round the path of Milton, in his...whence he blew Soul-animating strains — alas, too few ! O 193 WILLIAM WORDSWORTH. TO THE LADY BEAUMONT. LADY ! the songs of Spring were in the grove While...
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The Poems of William Drummond of Hawthornden: With Life

William Drummond, Peter Cunningham - 1833 - 358 pages
...glow-worm Lamp, It cheer'd mild Spenser, call'd from Faery land To struggle through dark ways ; and when a damp Fell round the path of Milton, in his...he blew Soul-animating strains — alas, too few. Romeo and Julieta, tra- A Midsommer's Night gedie * Dreame. &c. &c. &c. Bookes red be me, anno 1607....
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The Poems of William Drummond of Hawthornden: With Life, by Peter Cunningham

William Drummond, Peter Cunningham - 1833 - 354 pages
...glow-worm Lamp, It cheer'd mild Spenser, call'd from Faery land To struggle through dark ways ; and when a damp Fell round the path of Milton, in his hand The Thing became a trumpet, whence he blew Romeo and Julieta, tra- A Midsommer's Night gedie * Dreame. &c. &c. &c. Bookes red be me, anno 1607....
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Specimens of English Sonnets

Alexander Dyce - 1833 - 240 pages
...glow-worm Lamp, It cheer'd mild Spenser, call'd from Faery-land To struggle through dark ways ; and, when a damp Fell round the path of Milton, in his hand The Thing hecame a Trumpet, whence he blew Soul-animating strains — alas, too few ! WILLIAM WORDSWORTH. TO...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 52

1834 - 864 pages
...glow-worm lamp, It cheered mild Spenser, called from Fairy-land To struggle through dark ways ; and when a damp Fell round the path of Milton, in his...whence he blew Soul-animating strains — alas, too few ! ' — vol. ii. p. 125. When have poetry and criticism mingled more genially than in these fourteen...
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American Quarterly Review, Volume 19

Robert Walsh - 1836 - 530 pages
...a glow-worm lamp It cheered mild Spenser, called from faery-land To struggle through dark ways; and when a damp Fell round the path of Milton, in his...thing became a trumpet whence he blew Soul-animating strains—alas, too few !" What could be more finished, more perfect, whether you regard it for its...
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