I need not repeat my wishes to have my little sonnets printed verbatim my last way.

"William Minor" was evidently forgetful of the exquisite sonnet, "Composed Upon Westminster Bridge.

SEE The ecclesiastical sonnets of William Wordsworth.

SEE Hayes, Carlton J.H. MOORE, ANN LESLIE. M, one thousand autobiographical sonnets.

[* These commendatory Sonnets first appeared in the first folio edition of Spenser's entire works (1611).

His anxiety on this point may be inferred from the way in which he more than once emphasised the fact of republication, e.g. in 'Peter Bell' (1819) he put the following prefatory note to four sonnets, which had previously appeared in 'Blackwood's Magazine', and which afterwards (1828) appeared in the 'Poetical Album' of Alaric Watts, "The following Sonnets having lately appeared in Periodical Publications are here reprinted.

They were obliged to renounce it, for his mistress then was that admirable fairy, invisible and dumb to the common herd, who displays her beauties to the gaze of a chosen race alone, as she murmurs her divine and chaste sonnets in their ear.

I was proud of it myself when I found that it had inspired Oscar Wilde to write me this lovely sonnet:

Collected sonnets.

The religious sonnets, which are certainly among the finest of Michelangelo's compositions, belong to this period.

The book is dedicated, in a very graceful and cordial sonnet, to Mr. E.P. Whipple; and it is seldom that South Carolina sends so pleasant a message to Massachusetts.

Winstanley has preserved an amorous sonnet of his, which we shall here insert.

He could not shed his tears upon the paper and hand them around for inspection, or write a melancholy sonnet on the frailty of crockery, as a relief to his mind.

He read Latin poems to fellow-scholars in the city and received complimentary sonnets in reply.

It is extracted here from Professor A.L. Perry's Williamstown and Williams College, (1899), and of it Dr. Perry remarks "Ingalls also wrote a notable sonnet on 'Opportunity,' which will no doubt survive, for it has a fine form and considerable literary merit, though godless in every line.

The following may serve as a specimen of the celebrated sonnets of this elegant writer.

One of the company expressing his astonishment at the number, "Oh," said he, "they are blank sonnets, or rhymes (bouts rimés) of all the sonnets I may have occasion to write.

Raffaello's few and far inferior sonnets vibrate with an intense and potent sensibility to this woman or to that.

Detained by bad weather at Ouchy for two days (Juno 26, 27), he wrote the Prisoner of Chillon, which, with its noble introductory sonnet on Bonnivard, in some respects surpasses any of his early romances.

" The "irregular" sonnet, written "at school," to which Wordsworth refers, is probably the one published in the 'European Magazine' in 1787, vol.

The series of itinerary sonnets, published along with them in the Yarrow volume of 1835, is the record of another Scottish tour, taken in the year 1833; and Wordsworth says of them that they were "composed 'or suggested' during a tour in the summer of 1833."

There can be little doubt that it is to the "famous brook" of 'The Prelude' that reference is made in the later sonnet, and still more significantly in the earlier poem 'The Fountain', vol.

If the original manuscript of that poema legitimate sonnet, with every restriction of rhyme and metrecould now be produced, and the timerecorded in which it was written, it would be pronounced an extraordinary performance; added to which, the non-alteration of a single word in the poem (a circumstance noted at the time) claims for it, I should suppose, a merit without a parallel.

Thus they will not be forced to seek relief for an emptiness of mind out of the loose and dangerous sonnets of the age.

Brown accompanied Keats in his tour in the Hebrides, a worthy event in the poet's career, seeing that it led to the production of that magnificent sonnet to "Ailsa Rock."