A Primer of English Verse: Chiefly in Its Æsthetic and Organic CharacterGinn, 1892 - 232 Seiten |
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abba abba accented syllable alexandrine alliteration artistic effect beautiful blank verse breath cadence Canto character Chaucer cloud consonants couplet dark death deep doth double rhyme earth emphasis employed English poetry examples expression eyes Faerie Queene feeling feet following stanzas foot fourth hath heard heart heaven hills ictus imparted Italian type Julius Cæsar last verse light syllable lines melody and harmony metre metrical Milton moan monosyllabic morn murmuring night ninth verse o'er octave organic ottava rima painter Paradise Lost passage pause pentameter poem poet poetic primal unit quatrains reader Revolt of Islam rhyme rhyme-emphasis rhyme-scheme round says sestet Shakespeare SIDNEY COLVIN silent sleep song soul sound Spenser Spenserian stanza spirit stood stream sweet Tennyson tercet thee thing third verse thou thought thro thunder tone unaccented unities voice vowel wave wind wings words Wordsworth
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 54 - I could weep My spirit from mine eyes ! There is my dagger, And here my naked breast; within, a heart Dearer than Plutus...
Seite 212 - Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds; pleasant the sun, When first on this delightful land he spreads His orient beams, on herb, tree, fruit, and flower, Glistering with dew; fragrant the fertile earth After soft showers; and sweet the coming on Of grateful evening
Seite 28 - With purple grapes, green figs, and mulberries ; The honey bags steal from the humble-bees, And, for night-tapers, crop their waxen thighs, And light them at the fiery glowworm's eyes...
Seite 171 - To fetters, and the damp vault's dayless gloom, Their country conquers with their martyrdom, And Freedom's fame finds wings on every wind.
Seite 68 - There is sweet music here that softer falls Than petals from blown roses on the grass, Or night-dews on still waters between walls Of shadowy granite, in a gleaming pass ; Music that gentlier on the spirit lies Than tired eyelids upon tired eyes ; Music that brings sweet sleep down from the blissful skies.
Seite 179 - And moan the expense of many a vanish'd sight. Then can I grieve at grievances foregone, And heavily from woe to woe tell o'er The sad account of fore-bemoaned moan, Which I new pay as if not paid before. But if the while I think on thee, dear friend, All losses are restored and sorrows end.
Seite 22 - tis said, when all were fired, Filled with fury, rapt, inspired, From the supporting myrtles round They snatched her instruments of sound ; And, as they oft had heard apart Sweet lessons of her forceful art, Each (for madness ruled the hour) Would prove his own expressive power. First, Fear, his hand, its skill to try, Amid the chords bewildered laid, And back recoiled, he knew not why, E'en at the sound himself had made.
Seite 178 - Shall I compare thee to a summer's day ?. Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough Winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer's lease hath all too short a date...
Seite 119 - Eve — Ah, bitter chill it was! The owl, for all his feathers, was a-cold; The hare limped trembling through the frozen grass, And silent was the flock in woolly fold; Numb were the Beadsman's fingers, while he told His rosary, and while his frosted breath, Like pious incense from a censer old, Seemed taking flight for heaven, without a death, Past the sweet Virgin's picture, while his prayer he saith.
Seite 180 - Not marble, nor the gilded monuments Of princes, shall outlive this powerful rhyme ; But you shall shine more bright in these contents Than unswept stone, besmear'd with sluttish time. When wasteful war shall statues overturn, And broils root out the work of masonry, Nor Mars his sword nor war's quick fire shall burn The living record of your memory.