 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 541824Full view - About this book
 | Matthew Arnold - English poetry - 1895 - 652 pages
...her read, reading might make her know, f( Knowledge might pity win, and pity grace obtain, — — Xi I 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 - 656 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 woe,...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... | |
 | Lilian F. Field - Renaissance - 1898 - 328 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 sunburn'd brain. But words came halting forth, wanting Invention's stay, Invention, Nature's child,... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1899 - 626 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 - English poetry - 1901 - 628 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,... | |
 | Bowyer Nichols - Sonnets, English - 1903 - 302 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 sunbnrn'd brain. But words came halting forth, wanting Invention's stay ; Invention, Nature's child,... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - English language - 1903 - 488 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,... | |
 | John Vance Cheney, Sir Charles G. D. Roberts, Charles Francis Richardson, Francis Hovey Stoddard, John Raymond Howard - English poetry - 1904 - 614 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-burned brain. But words came halting forth, wanting Invention's stay; Invention, Nature's child,... | |
 | Mandell Creighton - Europe - 1904 - 272 pages
...artificial forms : gradually he burst through his sonnets. trammels and learned to be more natural : — I sought fit words to paint the blackest face of woe,...to entertain, Oft turning others' leaves to see if th; nee would flow Some fresh and fruitful showers upon my sun-burnt brain. But words came halting... | |
 | John Vance Cheney, Sir Charles G. D. Roberts, Charles Francis Richardson, Francis Hovey Stoddard, John Raymond Howard - English poetry - 1904 - 544 pages
...might take some pleasure of ray pain, — Pleasure might cause her read, reading might make her know, Studying inventions fine, her wits to entertain, Oft...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,... | |
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