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| Search results for: sonnet | Found 863 Poems |
| 791. | Sonnet XXXIII: I Wake by Mary Darby Robinson | | I wake! delusive phantoms hence, away!
Tempt not the weakness of a lover's breast;
The softest breeze can shake the halcyon's nest,
And lightest cl... |
| 792. | Sonnet XXXIV: Venus! To Thee by Mary Darby Robinson | | Venus! to thee, the Lesbian Muse shall sing,
The song, which Myttellenian youths admir'd,
when Echo, am'rous of the strain inspir'd,
Bade the wild... |
| 793. | Sonnet XXXIX: Prepare Your Wreaths by Mary Darby Robinson | | Prepare your wreaths, Aonian maids divine,
To strew the tranquil bed where I shall sleep;
In tears, the myrtle and the laurel steep,
And let Erato'... |
| 794. | Sonnet XXXV: What Means the Mist by Mary Darby Robinson | | What means the mist opaque that veils these eyes;
Why does yon threat'ning tempest shroud the day?
Why does thy altar, Venus, fade away,
And on my ... |
| 795. | Sonnet XXXVI: Lead Me, Sicilian Maids by Mary Darby Robinson | | Lead me, Sicilian Maids, to haunted bow'rs,
While yon pale moon displays her faintest beams
O'er blasted woodlands, and enchanted streams,
Whose ba... |
| 796. | Sonnet XXXVII: When, in the Gloomy Mansion by Mary Darby Robinson | | When, in the gloomy mansion of the dead,
This with'ring heart, this faded form shall sleep;
When these fond eyes, at length shall cease to weep,
An... |
| 797. | Sonnet XXXVIII: Oh Sigh by Mary Darby Robinson | | Oh Sigh! thou steal'st, the herald of the breast,
The lover's fears, the lover's pangs to tell;
Thou bid'st with timid grace the bosom swell,
Cheat... |
| 799. | Sonnet I by Charlotte Smith | | THE partial Muse, has from my earliest hours,
Smil'd on the rugged path I'm doom'd to tread,
And still with sportive hand has snatch'd wild flower... |
| 800. | Sonnet III: To a Nightingale by Charlotte Smith | | Poor melancholy bird---that all night long
Tell'st to the Moon, thy tale of tender woe;
From what sad cause can such sweet sorrow flow,
And whence ... |
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