At fifteen, however, he developed a passion for poetry, and wrote twosonnets of considerable merit.
Manuel de Mello's early Spanish verses are tainted with Gongorism, but his Portuguese sonnets and cartas on moral subjects are notable for their power, sincerity and perfection of form.
The reputation of Aretino in his own time rested chiefly on his satirical sonnets or burlesques; but his comedies, five in number, are now considered the best of his works.
The dialogues and the licentioussonnets have been translated into French, under the title Academie des Dames.
The only effect on poetry that the war has had, so far as I know, is to produce those five sonnets by Rupert Brooke.
But he shared the great emotion of his countrymen, and so he wrote out of his deeply wakened, sudden simplicity those sonnets which they all can understand and must forever cherish.
The war forces genius to flower prematurely--that is how we got the noble sonnets of Rupert Brooke.
I wished that at least one-fifth of it had not been published; but my apology was never heard till now as I withdraw from this edition of A Lover's Diary some twenty-five sonnets representing fully one-fifth of the original edition.
Three Hundred English Sonnets chosen and edited with a few notes by David M.
Eleventh edition; to which are added, a few sonnets and verses.
Until the present edition was published, one of the sonnets was never thereafter printed with the Cycle.
He wrote poetry as well as carved stone, his sonnets especially holding a high rank.
How could he have written sonnets without an inspiration, unless he felt sentiments higher than we associate with either boys or girls?
O, I think thou meanest him that made nineteen sonnets of his mistress's busk-point.
Here, it is said, he wrote several amorous sonnets in praise of Cary's wife, and presented them to the lady, who passed them on to her husband.
Then there is a place where the Paris people put all their dead people and bring em flowers and dolls and ginger bread nuts and sonnets and such trifles.
Four sonnets by Hartley Coleridge were printed in the London Magazine for February, 1823, addressed to R.
Barton had a plan to provide Wordsworth's Ecclesiastical Sonnets with a Quaker pendant.
Mary is of opinion with me, that two of these Sonnets are of a higher grade than any poetry you have done yet.
The sonnets would be Moxon's own, which he had printed privately (see a later letter).
It was not omitted from the Last Essay, which Moxon was to publish, and eleven sonnets were quoted.
Lamb's first letter to his early poems his Christmas his Nightingale sonnet and Rogers his Reflector small commissions for Lamb and Murray his proposal to Miss Isola his Oak sonnet his marriage his sonnets "Mr. H.
Jameson was Robert Jameson, to whom Hartley Coleridge addressed the sonnets in the London Magazine to which Lamb alludes in a previous letter.
I quote one of Moxon's many sonnets to Emma Moxon:-- Fair art thou as the morning, my young Bride!
I shall Mister you while you stay-- If you are not too great to attend to it, I wish us to do without the Sonnets of Sydney: 12 will take up as many pages, and be too palpable a fill up.
There was much talent in the family, and the eldest son was distinguished for poetical talent, of which a specimen is given in my Notes to the Sonnets on the Duddon.
Your Sonnets I think are as good as anything you have done in verse.
The passion which was suppressed elsewhere burned in his 'Sonnets to Liberty,' and added a deeper sadness to the 'Yew-trees of Borrowdale.
Not long afterwards, some of the Sonnets which will be found towards the close of this series were produced as a private memorial of that morning's occupation.
But see Memorials of Italy, 'Sonnets on Roman Historians.
This must be borne in mind, or else the reader may think that in this and succeeding sonnets I have exaggerated the mischief engendered and fostered among us by undisturbed wealth.
The reader may be tempted to exclaim, 'How came this and the two following Sonnets to be written, after the dissatisfaction expressed in the preceding one?
Her sonnets seem to me to be of great beauty, and her longer piece, entitled "Our Casuarina Tree," needs no apology for its rich and mellifluous numbers.
First a selection from the sonnets of the Comte de Grammont, translated into English, turned up, and was printed in a Calcutta magazine; then some fragments of an English story, which were printed in another Calcutta magazine.
My conviction that Shakespeare was not abnormally vicious, and that the first series of Sonnets proved snobbishness and toadying and not corrupt passion, seemed to Oscar the very madness of partisanship.
If one finds poetry only in the saccharine sonnets of our magazine writers and none at all in the great philosophers, he does not understand what poetry is.
These sonnets are personal--never were sonnets more personal since Sidney died--and yet the very blood and youth of England seem to find expression in them.
During this period of writing for court favors, Donne wrote many of his sonnets and studied the civil and canon law.
With Alexander Smith he published in 1855 a series of sonnets inspired by the Crimean War.
Little Elegies, consisting of four stanzas and a couplet, are no more Sonnets than they are Epic Poems.
The three following Sonnets are written in the character of Werter; the sentiments and images chiefly, but not intirely taken from one of his letters.
We receive so manysonnets and letters of congratulations.
Many thanks for the notes on the three sonnets [Camoens].
Later, Burton sent Payne other Camoens sonnets to look over.
He had no sonnets to write, and it could not strike him agreeably that he was not an object of preference to the woman whom he had preferred.
Would it not be rash to conclude that there was no passion behind those sonnets to Delia which strike us as the thin music of a mandolin?
However slight the terrestrial intercourse between Dante and Beatrice or Petrarch and Laura, time changes the proportion of things, and in later days it is preferable to have fewer sonnets and more conversation.
These odes and sonnets are all but parts of one vast symphony, leading us through a passion strengthened by years and only purified by death, until at last the graceful lay becomes an anthem and a Nunc dimittis.
In the closing sonnets he withdraws from the world, and they seem like a voice from a cloister, growing more and move solemn till the door is closed.
These sonnets are in Petrarch's earlier manner; but the death of Laura brought a change.
So change the sonnets after Laura's death, growing shadowy as they recede, until the very last seems to merge itself in the blue distance.
These sonnets favourably show the poetical genius of Branwell.
He wrote sonnets and satires, and was invested with the laureate.
There are not many sonnets in the poetry of Olavo Bilac, who so generously received her, to match the sheer artistry of her Dance of the Centaurs, her Argonauts, her Impassive Muse.
This is impressed in far superior fashion by one of the best sonnets Bilac ever wrote: Sahara Vitae.
In these sonnets he becomes the poet-chiseller of Hugo’s distich; into a form that would seem to have lost all adaptability to new manipulation he manages to pour something new, something his own.
Emilio de Menezes, who like Machado de Assis has translated Poe’s The Raven, is best known for his remarkable trio of religious sonnets grouped under the title Os Tres Olhares de Maria (The Three Glances of Mary).
Her ars poetica is summed up in the two sonnets grouped under the title Musa Impassivel (Impassive Muse) and serving as the motto of the collection Marmores.
According to Alberto de Oliveira there are decided Parnassian leanings in Castro Alves’s Espumas Fluctuantes, 1870, in the sonnets called Os anjos da meia noite (Midnight Angels.
It occurs also," I iterated, "in one of the most finished sonnets of Henry Kirke White.
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