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" Phoebus lifts his golden fire : The birds in vain their amorous descant join, Or cheerful fields resume their green attire. These ears, alas ! for other notes repine ; A different object do these eyes require ; My lonely anguish melts no heart but mine... "
The poetical works of William Wordsworth. New and complete annotated ed ... - Page 327
by William [poetical works] Wordsworth - 1870
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Selected Poems

William Wordsworth - 1994 - 628 pages
...diction. In vain to me the smiling mornings shine, And reddening Phoebus lifts his golden fire: The birds in vain their amorous descant join, Or cheerful...different object do these eyes require; My lonely anguish melts no heart but mine; And in my breast the imperfect joys expire; Yet morning smiles the...
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The Wordsworth Book of Sonnets

Masson - 1995 - 228 pages
...Richard West In vain to me the smiling mornings shine And redd'ning Phoebus lifts his golden fire: The birds in vain their amorous descant join; Or cheerful...different object do these eyes require: My lonely anguish melts no heart but mine; And in my breast the imperfect joys expire. Yet morning smiles the...
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Two Poets of the Oxford Movement: John Keble and John Henry Newman

Rodney Stenning Edgecombe - 1996 - 304 pages
...still, Keble picks up the renunciatory phrasing of Gray's "Sonnet [on the Death of Mr Richard West]" ("These ears, alas! for other notes repine, / A different object do these eyes require" 135 in "Far other strains, far other fires, / Our marriage grace"). Marriage, in a word, has been desexualized....
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Taming the Chaos: English Poetic Diction Theory Since the Renaissance

Emerson R. Marks - 1998 - 428 pages
...any other. In vain to me the smiling mornings shine, And reddening Phoebus lifts his golden fire: The birds in vain their amorous descant join, Or cheerful...repine; A different object do these eyes require; My lonclv anguish melts no heart but mine; And in my breast the imperfect joys expire; Yet morning smiles...
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A Century of Sonnets: The Romantic-Era Revival 1750-1850

Paula R. Feldman, Daniel Robinson - 2002 - 302 pages
...Richard West In vain to me the smiling mornings shine, And redd'ning Phoebus lifts his golden fire: The birds in vain their amorous descant join; Or cheerful...different object do these eyes require. My lonely anguish melts no heart but mine; And in my breast the imperfect joys expire. Yet morning smiles the...
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The Poetics of Disappointment: Wordsworth to Ashbery

Laura Quinney - 1999 - 232 pages
...self-alienation: In vain to me the smiling mornings shine. And reddening Phoebus lifts his golden fire: The birds in vain their amorous descant join: Or cheerful...different object do these eyes require. My lonely anguish melts no heart but mine; And in my breast the imperfect joys expire', Yet morning smiles the...
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Thomas Gray: A Life

Robert L. Mack - 2000 - 768 pages
...tradition: In vain to me the smiling mornings shine, And reddening Phoebus lifts his golden fire: The birds in vain their amorous descant join, Or cheerful...different object do these eyes require. My lonely anguish melts no heart but mine; And in my mind the imperfect joys expire. Yet morning smiles the busy...
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Ways of Reading: Advanced Reading Skills for Students of English Literature

Martin Montgomery - 2000 - 390 pages
...redd'ning Phoebus lifts his golden fire: The birds in vain their amorous descant join: Or chearful fields resume their green attire: These ears, alas!...different object do these eyes require. My lonely anguish melts no heart but mine; And in my breast the imperfect joys expire. Yet morning smiles the...
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The Consolation of Otherness: The Male Love Elegy in Milton, Gray and Tennyson

Matthew Curr - 2002 - 188 pages
...And redning Phoebus lifts his golden Fire; The Birds in vain their amorous Descant joyn; Or chearful Fields resume their green Attire: These Ears, alas!...different Object do these eyes require. My lonely Anguish melts no Heart, but mine; And in my Breast the imperfect Joys expire. Yet Morning smiles the...
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Lyrical Ballads and Other Poems

William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 2003 - 356 pages
...diction. In vain to me the smiling mornings shine, And reddening Phoebus lifts his golden fire: The birds in vain their amorous descant join, Or cheerful...different object do these eyes require; My lonely anguish melts no heart but mine; And in my breast the imperfect joys expire; Yet morning smiles the...
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