 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 brow: a glow-worm lamp, It cheered mild Spenser, called...  The Southern literary messenger - Page 1301838Full view - About this book
 | William Shakespeare - 1872 - 480 pages
...cypress with which Dante crown'd His visionary brow ; a glow-worm lamp, It cheer'd mild Spenser, call'd from Faery-land To struggle through dark ways ; and,...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,... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1827 - 412 pages
...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...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... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1899 - 308 pages
...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...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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 1833 - 240 pages
...cypress with which Dante crown'd His visionary brow : a glow-worm Lamp, It cheer'd mild Spenser, call'd from Faery-land To struggle through dark ways ; and,...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... | |
 | William Drummond, Peter Cunningham - 1833 - 358 pages
...Dante crown'd His visionary brow : a glow-worm Lamp, It cheer'd mild Spenser, call'd from Faery land To struggle through dark ways ; and when a damp Fell...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.... | |
 | William Drummond, Peter Cunningham - 1833 - 354 pages
...Dante crown'd His visionary brow : a glow-worm Lamp, It cheer'd mild Spenser, call'd from Faery land To struggle through dark ways ; and when a damp Fell...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.... | |
 | Alexander Dyce - 1833 - 240 pages
...cypress with which Dante crown'd His visionary hrow : a glow-worm Lamp, It cheer'd mild Spenser, call'd from Faery-land To struggle through dark ways ; and,...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... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1834 - 594 pages
...Dante crowned His visionary brow ; a glow-worm lamp, It cheered mild Spenser, called from Fairy-land To struggle through dark ways ; and when a damp Fell...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... | |
 | 1834 - 864 pages
...Dante crowned His visionary brow ; a glow-worm lamp, It cheered mild Spenser, called from Fairy-land To struggle through dark ways ; and when a damp Fell...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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