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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ON A MAGAZINE SONNET, by RUSSELL HILLARD LOINES
First Line: Scorn not the sonnet,' though its strength be sapped
Last Line: Had otherwise been covered with a hundred.
Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Sonnet (as Literary Form)
First Line: Scorn not the sonnet,' though its strength be sapped
Last Line: Had otherwise been covered with a hundred.
Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Sonnet (as Literary Form)
"SCORN not the sonnet," though its strength be sapped,
Nor say malignant its inventor blundered;
The corpse that here in fourteen lines is wrapped
Had otherwise been covered with a hundred.
Other Poems of Interest...
WAS THAT REALLY A SONNET? by ANSELM HOLLO
RETICENT SONNET by ANNE CARSON
SONNET: OF THREE GIRLS AND OF THEIR TALK by GIOVANNI BOCCACCIO
WHAT THE SONNET IS by EUGENE JACOB LEE-HAMILTON
THE HOUSE OF LIFE: THE SONNET (INTRODUCTION) by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI
THE SONNET by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH
FRAGMENTS WRITTEN WHILE TRAVELING...A MIDWESTERN HEAT WAVE by JAMES GALVIN
SECOND BOOK OF AIRS: 7. THE MEASURE OF BEAUTY by THOMAS CAMPION