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Sonnet

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Written at Weymouth in winter. THE chill waves whiten in the sharp North-east...

Charlotte Smith

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The First Part: Sonnet 13 - O sacred blush, impurpling cheeks' pure skies

O sacred blush, impurpling cheeks' pure skies With crimson wings which spread...

William Drummond

3

THE SLEEPING WOODMAN. Written in April, 1790. YE copses wild, where April...

Charlotte Smith

4

Sonnet 27: Because I Oft

Because I oft in dark abstracted guise Seem most alone in greatest company,...

Sir Philip Sidney

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FROM THE NOVEL OF CELESTINA. THE PILGRIM. FAULTERING and sad the unhappy...

Charlotte Smith

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Sonnet XIV. From Petrarch

LOOSE to the wind her golden tresses stream'd, Forming bright waves with...

Charlotte Smith

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Sonnet XII - I Did But Prompt the Age to Quit their Clogs

I did but prompt the age to quit their clogs By the known rules of...

John Milton

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A Wreath Of Sonnets (6/14)

Unblest by soothing winds of warmer days, My songs remain, since from you,...

France Preseren

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Sonnet LXXVII. To The Insect Of The Gossamer

SMALL, viewless aeronaut, that by the line Of Gossamer suspended, in mid air...

Charlotte Smith

10

Consolation In The Gospel (Sonnet XI)

How beautiful, as fades the gloom of night, How beautiful the early sunbeams...

Thomas Cogswell Upham

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The Idol... Sonnet to an Asshole

Dark and wrinkled like a purple pink It breathes, nestling humbly among the...

Arthur Rimbaud