 Camoens soothed an exile's grief; The Sonnet glittered a gay myrtle leaf Amid the cypress with which Dante crowned His visionary brow: a glow-worm lamp, It cheered mild Spenser, called from Faery-land To struggle through dark ways ; and when a damp Fell...  The Family friend [ed. by R.K. Philp]. - Sida 207redigerad av Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
 | George Monteiro - 1996 - 212 sidor
...the mention of the one necessarily evoked the other: Scorn not the Sonnet; Critic, you have frowned, Of this small lute gave ease to Petrarch's wound; A thousand times this pipe did Tasso sound; With it Camoens soothed an exiles grief; The Sonnet glittered a gay myrtle leaf Amid the cypress with... | |
 | Horst Priessnitz - 1999 - 170 sidor
...Scorn not the Sonnet; Critic, you have frowned, Mindless of its just honours; with this key Shakespeare unlocked his heart; the melody Of this small lute gave ease to Petrach's wound; A thousand times this pipe did Tasso sound; With it Camoens soothed an exile's grief;... | |
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