A Sonnet is a moment's monument, — Memorial from the Soul's eternity To one dead deathless hour. Look that it be, Whether for lustral rite or dire portent, Of its own arduous fulness reverent : Carve it in ivory or in ebony, As Day or Night may rule... Texas Review - Page 1511916Full view - About this book
| Dante Gabriel Rossetti - 1881 - 362 pages
...only. It will be evident that many among those now first added are still the work of earlier years.) A Sonnet is a moment's monument,— Memorial from...deathless hour. Look that it be, Whether for lustral rite or dire portent, Of its own arduous fulness reverent : Carve it in ivory or in ebony, As Day or... | |
| Dante Gabriel Rossetti - 1881 - 362 pages
...only. It will be evident that many among those now first added are still the work of earlier years.) A Sonnet is a moment's monument, — Memorial from...eternity To one dead deathless hour. Look that it be, Whetherfor lustral rite or dire portent, Of its own arduous fulness reverent : Carve it in ivory or... | |
| 1882 - 404 pages
...thy friend's free steps that widely roam Toward that far country where his wishes are ? MAY, 1882. A Sonnet is a moment's monument — Memorial from...deathless hour. Look that it be, Whether for lustral rite or dire portent, Of its own arduous fulness reverent : Carve it in ivory or ebony, As Day or Night... | |
| Sir T. H. Hall Caine - 1882 - 324 pages
...associated with life, and exhibiting a similitude of it, may best be learned from his prefatory sonnet : — A Sonnet is a moment's monument, — Memorial from...deathless hour. Look that it be, Whether for lustral rite or dire portent, Of its own arduous fulness reverent : Carve it in ivory or in ebony, As Day or... | |
| Dante Gabriel Rossetti - 1882 - 310 pages
...only. It will be evident that many among those now first added are still the work of earlier years.) A Sonnet is a moment's monument, — Memorial from...dead deathless hour. Look that it be, Whether for lustra! rite or dire portent, Of its own arduous fulness rnierent: Carve it in ivory or in ebony, As... | |
| 1882 - 614 pages
...language thinks about the form he handles with unrivalled mastery, that I extract it in full : — "A Sonnet is a moment's monument — Memorial from...eternity To one dead deathless hour. Look that it l)e, Whether for lustral rite or dire portent, Of its own arduous fulness reverent : Carve it in ivory... | |
| Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Francis Hueffer - 1882 - 298 pages
...only. It will be evident that many among those now first added are still the work of earlier years.) A Sonnet is a moment's monument, Memorial from the...eternity To one dead deathless hour. Look that it lie, Whether for luslral rite or dire portent, Of its own arduous fulness reverent: Carve it in ivory... | |
| 1882 - 816 pages
...structure, and how well rounded and compact is the entire composition. As Mr. Rossetti himself well says, A Sonnet is a moment's monument, — Memorial from the Soul's eternity To one dead deathless hour. Acting upon this idea — and perhaps, too, influenced in some measure by the existence of the ' Vita... | |
| James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch - 1882 - 1190 pages
...structure, and how well rounded and compact is the entire composition. As Mr. Rossetti himself well says, A Sonnet is a moment's monument, — Memorial from the Soul's eternity To one dead deathless hour. Acting upon this idea — and perhaps, too, influenced in some measure by the existence of the ' Vita... | |
| Dante Gabriel Rossetti - 1882 - 616 pages
...still the work of earlier years.) •$*-- A Sonnet is a moments monument, — Memorial from the SouFs eternity To one dead deathless hour. Look that it be, Whether for lustr-al rite or dire portent, Of its own arduous fulness reverent : Carve it in ivory or in ebony, As Day or... | |
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