Sonnet LX: Transfigured Life
Sonnet LX: Transfigured Life As growth of form or momentary glance In a child’s features will recall to mind The father’s with the mother’s face combin’d,— […]
READ MORESonnet LXI: The Song-Throe
Sonnet LXI: The Song-Throe By thine own tears thy song must tears beget, O Singer! Magic mirror thou hast none Except thy manifest heart; and save […]
READ MORESonnet LXII: The Soul’s Sphere
Sonnet LXII: The Soul’s Sphere Some prisoned moon in steep cloud-fastnesses,— Throned queen and thralled; some dying sun whose pyre Blazed with momentous memorable fire;— Who […]
READ MORESonnet LXIII: Inclusiveness
Sonnet LXIII: Inclusiveness The changing guests, each in a different mood, Sit at the roadside table and arise: And every life among them in like wise […]
READ MORESonnet LXIV: Ardour And Memory
Sonnet LXIV: Ardour And Memory The cuckoo-throb, the heartbeat of the Spring; The rosebud’s blush that leaves it as it grows Into the full-eyed fair unblushing […]
READ MORESonnet LXIX: Autumn Idleness
Sonnet LXIX: Autumn Idleness This sunlight shames November where he grieves In dead red leaves, and will not let him shun The day, though bough with […]
READ MORESonnet LXV: Known in Vain
Sonnet LXV: Known in Vain As two whose love, first foolish, widening scope, Knows suddenly, to music high and soft, The Holy of holies; who because […]
READ MORESonnet LXVI: The Heart of the Night
Sonnet LXVI: The Heart of the Night From child to youth; from youth to arduous man; From lethargy to fever of the heart; From faithful life […]
READ MORESonnet LXVII : The Landmark
Sonnet LXVII : The Landmark Was that the landmark? What,—the foolish well Whose wave, low down, I did not stoop to drink, But sat and flung […]
READ MORESonnet LXVIII: A Dark Day
Sonnet LXVIII: A Dark Day The gloom that breathes upon me with these airs Is like the drops which strike the traveller’s brow Who knows not, […]
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