[ { "title": "Sonnet", "author": "Amy Levy", "lines": [ "Most wonderful and strange it seems, that I", "Who but a little time ago was tost", "High on the waves of passion and of pain,", "With aching heat and wildly throbbing brain,", "Who peered into the darkness, deeming vain", "All things there found if but One thing were lost,", "Thus calm and still and silent here should lie,", "Watching and waiting, --waiting passively.", "", "The dark has faded, and before mine eyes", "Have long, grey flats expanded, dim and bare;", "And through the changing guises all things wear", "Inevitable Law I recognise:", "Yet in my heart a hint of feeling lies", "Which half a hope and half a despair." ], "linecount": "14" }, { "title": "Sonnet", "author": "Rupert Brooke", "lines": [ "Not with vain tears, when we’re beyond the sun,", "We’ll beat on the substantial doors, nor tread", "Those dusty high-roads of the aimless dead", "Plaintive for Earth; but rather turn and run", "Down some close-covered by-way of the air,", "Some low sweet alley between wind and wind,", "Stoop under faint gleams, thread the shadows, find", "Some whispering ghost-forgotten nook, and there", "", "Spend in pure converse our eternal day;", "Think each in each, immediately wise;", "Learn all we lacked before; hear, know, and say", "What this tumultuous body now denies;", "And feel, who have laid our groping hands away;", "And see, no longer blinded by our eyes." ], "linecount": "14" }, { "title": "Sonnet", "author": "Samuel Coleridge", "lines": [ "To the River Otter", "", "Dear native Brook! wild Streamlet of the West!", "How many various-fated years have past,", "What happy and what mournful hours, since last", "I skimm'd the smooth thin stone along thy breast,", "Numbering its light leaps! yet so deep imprest", "Sink the sweet scenes of childhood, that mine eyes", "I never shut amid the sunny ray,", "But straight with all their tints thy waters rise,", "Thy crossing plank, thy marge with willows grey,", "And bedded sand that vein'd with various dyes", "Gleam'd through thy bright transparence! On my way,", "Visions of Childhood! oft have ye beguil'd", "Lone manhood's cares, yet waking fondest sighs:", "Ah! that once more I were a careless Child!" ], "linecount": "15" }, { "title": "Sonnet", "author": "Sir John Suckling", "lines": [ "Oh, for some honest lover's ghost,", "Some kind unbodied post", "Sent from the shades below!", "I strangely long to know", "Whether the noble chaplets wear", "Those that their mistress' scorn did bear", "Or those that were used kindly.", "", "For whatsoe'er they tell us here", "To make those sufferings dear,", "'Twill there, I fear, be found", "That to the being crowned", "T' have loved alone will not suffice,", "Unless we also have been wise", "And have our loves enjoyed.", "", "What posture can we think him in", "That, here unloved, again", "Departs, and 's thither gone", "Where each sits by his own?", "Or how can that Elysium be", "Where I my mistress still must see", "Circled in other's arms?", "", "For there the judges all are just,", "And Sophonisba must", "Be his whom she held dear,", "Not his who loved her here.", "The sweet Philoclea, since she died,", "Lies by her Pirocles his side,", "Not by Amphialus.", "", "Some bays, perchance, or myrtle bough", "For difference crowns the brow", "Of those kind souls that were", "The noble martyrs here;", "And if that be the only odds,", "(As who can tell?) ye kinder gods,", "Give me the woman here!" ], "linecount": "35" }, { "title": "Sonnet", "author": "Percy Bysshe Shelley", "lines": [ "FROM THE ITALIAN OF DANTE.", "", "DANTE ALIGHIERI TO GUIDO CAVALCANTI:", "", "Guido, I would that Lapo, thou, and I,", "Led by some strong enchantment, might ascend", "A magic ship, whose charmed sails should fly", "With winds at will where'er our thoughts might wend,", "So that no change, nor any evil chance", "Should mar our joyous voyage; but it might be,", "That even satiety should still enhance", "Between our hearts their strict community:", "And that the bounteous wizard then would place", "Vanna and Bice and my gentle love,", "Companions of our wandering, and would grace", "With passionate talk, wherever we might rove,", "Our time, and each were as content and free", "As I believe that thou and I should be." ], "linecount": "16" }, { "title": "Sonnet", "author": "Percy Bysshe Shelley", "lines": [ "FROM THE ITALIAN OF CAVALCANTI.", "", "GUIDO CAVALCANTI TO DANTE ALIGHIERI:", "", "Returning from its daily quest, my Spirit", "Changed thoughts and vile in thee doth weep to find:", "It grieves me that thy mild and gentle mind", "Those ample virtues which it did inherit", "Has lost. Once thou didst loathe the multitude", "Of blind and madding men--I then loved thee--", "I loved thy lofty songs and that sweet mood", "When thou wert faithful to thyself and me", "I dare not now through thy degraded state", "Own the delight thy strains inspire--in vain", "I seek what once thou wert--we cannot meet", "And we were wont. Again and yet again", "Ponder my words: so the false Spirit shall fly", "And leave to thee thy true integrity." ], "linecount": "16" }, { "title": "Sonnet", "author": "Percy Bysshe Shelley", "lines": [ "Lift not the painted veil which those who live", "Call Life: though unreal shapes be pictured there,", "And it but mimic all we would believe", "With colours idly spread,--behind, lurk Fear", "And Hope, twin Destinies; who ever weave", "Their shadows, o'er the chasm, sightless and drear.", "I knew one who had lifted it--he sought,", "For his lost heart was tender, things to love", "But found them not, alas! nor was there aught", "The world contains, the which he could approve.", "Through the unheeding many he did move,", "A splendour among shadows, a bright blot", "Upon this gloomy scene, a Spirit that strove", "For truth, and like the Preacher found it not." ], "linecount": "14" }, { "title": "Sonnet", "author": "Percy Bysshe Shelley", "lines": [ "Ye hasten to the grave! What seek ye there,", "Ye restless thoughts and busy purposes", "Of the idle brain, which the world's livery wear?", "O thou quick heart, which pantest to possess", "All that pale Expectation feigneth fair!", "Thou vainly curious mind which wouldest guess", "Whence thou didst come, and whither thou must go,", "And all that never yet was known would know--", "Oh, whither hasten ye, that thus ye press,", "With such swift feet life's green and pleasant path,", "Seeking, alike from happiness and woe,", "A refuge in the cavern of gray death?", "O heart, and mind, and thoughts! what thing do you", "Hope to inherit in the grave below?" ], "linecount": "14" } ]