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alas better cause cruel dark dead death deed deep desire divine doth doubt dread earth eternal fair faith fall fate fault fear feel fire force Fortune gain give glory gold grace grave grief hand happy hast hath hear heart heaven hope hour human immortal kind Lady leave less light live look Lord Lorenzo LOVER man's means mind nature never night o'er once pain pass past peace plain pleasant pleasure poor praise proof reason remain rise seek serve sigh sight smart smile sometime song sore soul speak stars sure tears thee thine thing thou thought true trust truth turn unto virtue waste wealth wind wise wish wretched Young
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Página 12 - Unanxious for ourselves, and only wish As duteous sons, our fathers were more wise. At thirty man suspects himself a fool ; Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan ; At fifty chides his infamous delay, Pushes his prudent purpose to resolve; In all the magnanimity of thought Resolves and re-resolves; then dies the same.
Página 29 - That sometime they have put themselves in danger To take bread at my hand; and now they range, Busily seeking with a continual change. Thanked be fortune, it hath been otherwise Twenty times better; but once...
Página xxviii - Silence and darkness ! solemn sisters! twins From ancient night, who nurse the tender thought! To reason, and on reason build resolve (That column of true majesty in man,) Assist me : I will thank you in the grave ; The grave, your kingdom : there this frame shall fall A victim sacred to your dreary shrine.
Página xxviii - Tis as the general pulse Of life stood still, and nature made a pause, An awful pause ! prophetic of her end.
Página 26 - Tis greatly wise to talk with our past hours ; And ask them, what report they bore to heaven ; And how they might have borne more welcome news.
Página 4 - And is it in the flight of threescore years To push eternity from human thought, And smother souls immortal in the dust ? A soul immortal, spending all her fires, Wasting her strength in strenuous idleness, Thrown into tumult, raptur'd or alarm'd, At aught this scene can threaten or indulge, Resembles ocean into tempest wrought, To waft a feather, or to drown a fly.
Página 12 - Strikes through their wounded hearts the sudden dread : But their hearts wounded, like the wounded air, Soon close; where past the shaft no trace is found. As from the wing no scar the sky retains, The parted wave no furrow from the keel, So dies in human hearts the thought of death : E'en with the tender tear which Nature sheds O'er those we love, we drop it in their grave.
Página 2 - What can preserve my life ? or what destroy ? An angel's arm can't snatch me from the grave ; Legions of angels can't confine me there.
Página 210 - Prayer ardent opens heaven, lets down a stream Of glory on the consecrated hour Of man, in audience with the Deity.
Página 18 - I am of them that furthest come behind. Yet may I by no means my wearied mind Draw from the deer ; but as she fleeth afore, Fainting I follow : I leave off therefore, Since in a net I seek to hold the wind. Who list her hunt, I put him out of doubt As well as I, may spend his time in vain : And graven with diamonds in letters plain, There is written her fair neck round about : " Noli me tangere ; for Caesar's I am, And wild for to hold, though I seem tame.
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| Título | The poetical works of sir Thomas Wyatt. The text ed. by C.C. Clarke Cassell's libr. ed. of Brit. poets The poetical works of sir Thomas Wyatt. The text ed. by C.C. Clarke, Charles Cowden Clarke |
| Autor | Sir Thomas Wyatt |
| Editor | Charles Cowden Clarke |
| Publicado | 1879 |
| Procedencia del original | Universidad de Oxford |
| Digitalizado | 14 Ago. 2006 |
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