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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
DEFINITION, by HAZEL FRYE SCHWENTKER
First Line: A sonnet, fourteen lines of measured rhyme
Last Line: When poets strum a bold ecstatic lute!
Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Sonnet (as Literary Form)
First Line: A sonnet, fourteen lines of measured rhyme
Last Line: When poets strum a bold ecstatic lute!
Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Sonnet (as Literary Form)
A sonnet,—fourteen lines of measured rhyme;
The finely chiseled pattern of a thought
That moves to quiet music for a time,
Then bursts into a flower, passion-wrought;
The throbbing sequence of a lover's tears;
The soul's sublime intention, nobly sung;
A winged breath that haunts the fading years:
And dreams to which an aching heart has clung.
A sonnet,—rising from the hidden pool
Of transmutation in the poet's mind,
Revealing to the wise man or the fool
The secret joys and sorrows of mankind.
A sonnet: gleam of star, or song of flute,
When poets strum a bold ecstatic lute!
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ON A MAGAZINE SONNET by RUSSELL HILLARD LOINES
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