...morning have I seen Flatter the mountain tops with sovereign eye. Shakespeare's Sonnet 83rd. Not mine own fears, nor the prophetic soul Of the wide world dreaming on things to come — ******** The mortal moon hath her eclipse endur'd, And the sad augurs mock their own presage ;...

...we, which now behold these present Have eyes to wonder, but lack tongues to praise. days, NOT mine own fears, nor the prophetic soul Of the wide world dreaming on things to Can yet the lease of my true love control, Supposed as forfeit to a confined doom. The mortal moon...

...seeking to express. The method of the concrete example is safest here. In such passages as Not mine own fears, nor the prophetic soul Of the wide world dreaming on things to come : Ah, sunflower, weary of Time ! The wan Moon is setting behind the white wave, And Time is setting...

...107, is generally supposed to refer to the release of the poet's friend from the Tower: 107 Not mine own fears, nor the prophetic soul Of the wide world, dreaming on things to come, Supposed as forfeit, to a confined doom. The Mortal Moon hath her eclipse endured, And the sad augurs...

...with its date, belongs to the year 1603. I refer to Sonnet 107, which reads as follows — " Not mine own fears, nor the prophetic soul Of the wide world dreaming on things to come, 1 Where so much is conventional, these periods of absence in the sonnets may also be conventional ;...

...a glorious morning have I seen Flatter the mountain tops with sovereign eye. Sonnets, 33. Not mine own fears, nor the prophetic soul Of the wide world dreaming on things to come — The mortal moon hath her eclipse endur'd, And the sad augurs mock their own presage ; Incertainties...

...form what amounts to a different psychological character. Their 1 Compare Shakespeare, Sonnet cvii: Nor the prophetic soul Of the wide world dreaming on things to come. mental history is as difficult to understand as their work, and for much the same reasons.1 Bunyan,...

...of which hear this thou age unbred Ere you were born was beauty's summer dead,. The lines — . . . nor the prophetic soul Of the wide world dreaming on things to come — are echoed by the following lines in the fourteenth sonnet : So all their praises are but prophecies...

...Elizabethanism, but the inward, spiritual, universal romance of Wordsworth and Keats and Hugo : Not mine own fears, nor the prophetic soul Of the wide world dreaming on things to come. All these manners are in this wonderful series of poems ; what is certainly not there, as I venture...

...that neither praise nor blame, human good nor human evil, closes man's case with his Maker. "Not mine own fears, nor the prophetic Soul of the wide world, dreaming on things to come" determines its fate. A divine justice and a divine love which burn ere they transform have to be reckoned...