 I sought fit words to paint the blackest face of woe; Studying inventions fine, her wits to entertain, Oft turning others' leaves to see if thence would flow Some fresh and fruitful showers upon my sun-burned brain.  The Retrospective Review - Page 561824Full view - About this book
 | John Addington Symonds - Great Britain - 1887 - 212 pages
...she, dear she, might take some pleasure of my pain, Pleasure might cause her read, reading might make her know, Knowledge might pity win, and pity grace...would flow Some fresh and fruitful showers upon my sun-burned brain. But words came halting forth, wanting invention's stay; Invention, nature's child,... | |
 | John Addington Symonds - Great Britain - 1887 - 214 pages
...she, dear she, might take some pleasure of my pain, Pleasure might cause her read, reading might make her know, Knowledge might pity win, and pity grace...would flow Some fresh and fruitful showers upon my sun-burned brain. But words came halting forth, wanting invention's stay; Invention, nature's child,... | |
 | Sir Philip Sidney - 1888 - 290 pages
...her reade, reading might make her know, Knowledge might pitie winne, and pitie grace obtaine, — • I sought fit words to paint the blackest face of woe...••«.- ; Studying inventions fine, her wits to entertaine, Oft turning others' leaves, to see if thence would flow Some fresh and fruitfull showers... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1889 - 628 pages
...cause her read, reading might make her know, Knowledge might pity win, and pity grace obtain, — 1 sought fit words to paint the blackest face of woe...would flow Some fresh and fruitful showers upon my sun-burn'd brain. But words came halting forth, wanting Invention's stay ; Invention, Nature's child,... | |
 | American fiction - 1897 - 552 pages
...contrast is pointed in its opening sonnet : Loving in truth and fain in verse my love to show . . . I sought fit words to paint the blackest face of wo'e,...would flow Some fresh and fruitful showers upon my sun-burned brain. But words came halting forth . . . — Fool, said my Muse to me, look in thy heart... | |
 | Edward Tompkins McLaughlin - Criticism - 1893 - 288 pages
...dear she, might take some pleasure of my pain, — Pleasure might cause her read, reading might make her know, Knowledge might pity win and pity grace...would flow Some fresh and fruitful showers upon my sun-burn'd brain. But words came halting forth, wanting Invention.'s stay; Invention, Nature's child,... | |
 | Edward Tompkins McLaughlin - Criticism - 1893 - 284 pages
...dear she, might take some pleasure of my pain, — Pleasure might cause her read, reading might make her know, Knowledge might pity win and pity grace...would flow Some fresh and fruitful showers upon my sun-burn'd brain. But words came halting forth, wanting Invention's stay; Invention, Nature's child,... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1893 - 650 pages
...dear she, might take some pleasure of my pain, — Pleasure might cause her read, reading might make her know, Knowledge might pity win, and pity grace...paint the blackest face of woe ; Studying inventions fme, her wits to entertain, Oft turning others' leaves, to see if thence would flow Some fresh and... | |
 | Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh, Walter Raleigh - English fiction - 1894 - 322 pages
...truth, and fain in verse my love to show, That she, dear She, might take some pleasure of my pain. " I sought fit words to paint the blackest face of woe...inventions fine, her wits to entertain, Oft turning other's leaves, to see if thence would flow Some fresh and fruitful showers upon my sunburn'd brain,... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1895 - 650 pages
...dear she, might take some pleasure of my pain, — Pleasure might cause her read, reading might make her know, Knowledge might pity win, and pity grace...would flow Some fresh and fruitful showers upon my sun-burn'd brain. But words came halting forth, wanting Invention's stay ; Invention, Nature's child,... | |
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