| 1857 - 602 pages
...thought and imagery. The following sonnet deserves to rank with the very best of Milton and Wordsworsh. " I thought once how Theocritus had sung Of the sweet...gracious hand appears To bear a gift for mortals, old and young : And, as I mused it, in his antique tongue, I saw, in gradual vision through niy tears,... | |
| Elizabeth Barrett Browning - 1851 - 252 pages
...THE PORTUGUESE. I" THOUGHT once how Theocritus had sung Of the sweet years, the dear and wished for years, Who each one in a gracious hand appears To bear a gift for mortals, old or young: And, as 1 mused it in his antique tongue, I saw, in gradual vision through my tears, The sweet, sad years,... | |
| Elizabeth Barrett Browning - 1851 - 252 pages
...Correggio's fashion, Bearing a LILY in his hand, For death's ANNUNCIATION." SONNETS FROM THE PORTUGUESE. I" THOUGHT once how Theocritus had sung Of the sweet years, the dear and wished for years, Who each one in a gracious hand appears To bear a gift for mortals, old or young:... | |
| Elizabeth Barrett Browning - 1852 - 254 pages
...close shall stand, In old Correggio's fashion, Bearing a LILY in his hand, SONNETS FROM THE POETUGUESE. I" THOUGHT once how Theocritus had sung Of the sweet years, the dear and wished for years, Who each one in a gracious hand appears To bear a gift for mortals, old or young... | |
| Elizabeth Barrett Browning - 1852 - 252 pages
...shall stand, In old Correggio's fashion, Bearing a LILY in his hand, SONNETS FROM THE PORTUGUESE. T THOUGHT once how Theocritus had sung Of the sweet years, the dear and wished for years, Who each one in a gracious hand appears To bear a gift for mortals, old or young:... | |
| Elizabeth Barrett Browning - 1853 - 508 pages
...them. Whatsoever eyes terrene Be the sweetest HIS have seen ! XIX. SONNETS FROM THE PORTUGUESE. i. I THOUGHT once how Theocritus had sung Of the sweet years, the dear and wished for years, Who each one in a gracious hand appears To bear a gift for mortals, old or young... | |
| John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1857 - 624 pages
...thought and imagery. The following sonnet deserves to rank with the very best of Milton and Wordsworsh. " I thought once how Theocritus had sung Of the sweet...gracious hand appears To bear a gift for mortals, old and young : And, as I mused it, in his antique tongue, I saw, in gradual vision through my tears, The... | |
| 1857 - 632 pages
...deserves to rank with the very best of Milton and Wordsworth. " I thought once how Theocritus had sang Of the sweet years, the dear and wished-for years,...gracious hand appears To bear a gift for mortals, old and young: And, as I mnsed it, in his antique tooguc, I saw, in gradual vision through my tears, Toe... | |
| 1857 - 654 pages
...the very best of Milton and Wordsworth. " I thought once how Theocritus had sung Of the sweet jears, the dear and wished-for years, Who each one in a gracious hand appears To bear a gift for mortale, old and young: And, as I mused it, iu his antique tongue, I saw, io gradual vision through... | |
| 1861 - 502 pages
...perhaps, of one or two of Milton and of Wordsworth, is, we . think, the finest in the English language. I thought once how Theocritus had sung Of the sweet...gracious hand appears To bear a gift for mortals, old and young; And, as I mused it, in his antique tongue, I t-aw, in gradual vision through my lears, The... | |
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