"Italian, Petrarchan form, as did sonnets by later English poets, including John Milton, Thomas Gray, William Wordsworth and Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Early twentieth-century American poet Edna St. Vincent Millay also wrote mostly Petrarchan sonnets. ""On His Blindness"" by Milton, gives a sense of the Petrarchan rhyme scheme: <poem style=""margin-left: 2em""> When I consider how my light is spent (A) To serve therewith my Maker, and present (A) That murmur, soon replies, ""God doth not need (C) Is Kingly. Thousands at his bidding speed (C) </poem> Most Sonnets in Dante's ""La Vita Nuova"" are Petrarchan. Chapter VII gives sonnet ""O voi"
"the famous sonnet that begins ""When I Consider How My Light is Spent"", usually (though inauthentically) referred to as ""On his blindness"", is numbered 19 by Milton but 16 in the printed edition (see Revard, 2009, p. 569). Milton's 1673 Poems Milton's 1673 Poems, formally titled Poems etc. on several occasions by Mr John Milton, both English and Latin, composed at several times, etc. is a volume of poetry by John Milton; it also includes a tract on education. The facsimile of the title page shows that the book was published by Thomas Dring of London. The 1673 book includes"
"ye please, I care for other none. (E) </poem> In the 17th century, the sonnet was adapted to other purposes, with John Donne and George Herbert writing religious sonnets (see John Donne's ""Holy Sonnets""), and John Milton using the sonnet as a general meditative poem. Probably Milton's most famous sonnet is ""When I Consider How My Light is Spent"", titled by a later editor ""On His Blindness"". Both the Shakespearean and Petrarchan rhyme schemes were popular throughout this period, as well as many variants. The fashion for the sonnet went out with the Restoration, and hardly any sonnets were written"
"was responsible in the Commonwealth government. However, the references to light and darkness in the poem make it virtually certain that Milton's blindness was at least a secondary theme. The sonnet is in the Petrarchan form, with the rhyme scheme a b b a a b b a c d e c d e, as can be seen in the text below. When Milton writes ""that one talent which is death to hide"" he is specifically alluding to the parable of the talents in the Gospel of Matthew. When I Consider How My Light is Spent ""When I Consider How"
"I Consider How My Light is Spent"", titled by a later editor, Bishop John Newton, """"On His Blindness"""". Cromwell's death in 1658 caused the English Republic to collapse into feuding military and political factions. Milton, however, stubbornly clung to the beliefs that had originally inspired him to write for the Commonwealth. In 1659, he published ""A Treatise of Civil Power"", attacking the concept of a state-dominated church (the position known as Erastianism), as well as ""Considerations touching the likeliest means to remove hirelings"", denouncing corrupt practises in church governance. As the Republic disintegrated, Milton wrote several proposals to retain a"
"by John Dryden. With Pindar's metre being better understood in the 18th century, the fashion for Pindaric odes faded, though there are notable actual Pindaric odes by Thomas Gray, ""The Progress of Poesy"" and ""The Bard"". <poem> There was a time when meadow, grove, and stream, The earth, and every common sight, To me did seem Apparelled in celestial light, The glory and the freshness of a dream. It is not now as it hath been of yore;— Turn wheresoe'er I may, By night or day, The things which I have seen I now can see no more... Our birth"
"the emergence of the heroic couplet, which by the end of the 17th century was the dominant form of English poetry. His early poems include ""On a Girdle"" and ""Go, lovely rose""; his later ""Instructions to a Painter"" (1666, on the Battle of Solebay) and ""Of the Last Verses in the Book"", containing the famous lines, 'The Soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed, Lets in new light through chinks that time hath made.' His ""Poems"" first appeared in 1645, and ""Divine Poems"" in 1685. His opus includes poetic tributes to both Oliver Cromwell (1655) and Charles II (1660). Edmund Waller"
"The Lamplighter (poem) The Lamplighter is a poem by Robert Louis Stevenson published in 1885 in Penny Whistles (better known today as A Child's Garden of Verses). This poem may be autobiographical. Stevenson was sickly growing up (probably tuberculosis), thus ""when I am stronger"" may refer to his hope of recovery. Further, his illness isolated him, so the loneliness expressed in the poem would fit well with his own childhood. Stevenson's poem also makes reference to the divide that exists between children and adults. This is seen when the speaker says that his father is a banker and rejects following"
"Mr. Squire, January 6, 1623,” in which she criticizes “’Rome’s gross idolatry’” and “mocks English papist who, like Adam and Eve in the Garden, ‘with leaves, their nakedness would hide, [avoiding] the touch of Truth.’” Other early poems include writings on the death of King James and the subsequent succession of Charles I. On the Death of King James Our Sun departed yet no night appeared: The cause (obscure) was by Urania cleared, Who heard this hymn sung in the Aonian grove: “Phoebus must leave his orb, and shine with Jove. And in the moment when this thing is done,"
"were greatly influenced by Chaucer in the century after his death and most made use of the form in at least some of their works. John Lydgate used the stanza for many of his occasional and love poems. The Scottish poet Robert Henryson consistently used the stanza throughout his two longest works, the ""Morall Fabillis"" and ""Testament of Cresseid"", while the anonymous ""The Flower and the Leaf"" is another early use of the form. In the 16th century Sir Thomas Wyatt used it in his poem ""They flee from me that sometime did me seek"", Thomas Sackville in the Induction"
"Wasted Light ""Wasted Light"" is a song released from Irish singer/songwriter Ronan Keating's ninth solo album ""Fires"". The song was written by Edvard Førre Erfjord, Henrik Barman Michelsen and Gary Go. It was released as promotional single. Radio Creme Brulee stated that ""On the song, Keating sings from the perspective of a man reminiscing about a love that took the form of a journey. This man pines with a hint of optimism for the return of that loved one. The track opens with a sparse acoustic guitar arrangement and a light mid-tempo percussion that one can easily snap his or"
"the night and silence and darkness have settled down upon those miles of prostrate sick, she may be observed alone, with a little lamp in her hand, making her solitary rounds. The phrase was further popularised by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's 1857 poem ""Santa Filomena"": Lo! in that house of misery A lady with a lamp I see Pass through the glimmering gloom, And flit from room to room. In the Crimea on 29 November 1855, the Nightingale Fund was established for the training of nurses during a public meeting to recognise Nightingale for her work in the war. There was"
"The Sunlight on the Garden The Sunlight on the Garden is a 24-line poem by Louis MacNeice. It was written in late 1936 and was entitled ""Song"" at its first appearance in print, in The Listener magazine, January 1937. It was first published in book form as the third poem in MacNeice's poetry collection The Earth Compels (1938). The poem explores themes of time and loss, along with anxiety about the darkening political situation in Europe following the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War. It is one of the best known and most anthologized of MacNeice's short poems. George Macbeth"
"of Milton's poetry, he gave the title ""On His Blindness"" to Sonnet XIX, ""When I Consider How My Light is Spent"". Newton was appointed the Bishop of Bristol in 1761 and in 1768 became the Dean of St Paul's Cathedral in London. He has been considered a Christian universalist. One of Newton's famous quotes concerns the Jewish people: The preservation of the Jews is really one of the most signal and illustrious acts of divine Providence... and what but a supernatural power could have preserved them in such a manner as none other nation upon earth hath been preserved. Nor"
"John Dowland John Dowland (1563 – buried 20 February 1626) was an English Renaissance composer, lutenist, and singer. He is best known today for his melancholy songs such as ""Come, heavy sleep"" (the basis of Benjamin Britten's 1963 composition for solo guitar, ""Nocturnal after John Dowland""), ""Come again"", ""Flow my tears"", ""I saw my Lady weepe"" and ""In darkness let me dwell"", but his instrumental music has undergone a major revival, and with the 20th century's early music revival, has been a continuing source of repertoire for lutenists and classical guitarists. Very little is known of John Dowland's early life,"
"Lost"" while blind (he dictated to helpers) inspired loosely biographical paintings by both Fuseli and Eugène Delacroix. Paradise Lost Paradise Lost is an epic poem in blank verse by the 17th-century English poet John Milton (1608–1674). The first version, published in 1667, consisted of ten books with over ten thousand lines of verse. A second edition followed in 1674, arranged into twelve books (in the manner of Virgil's ""Aeneid"") with minor revisions throughout and a note on the versification. It is considered by critics to be Milton's major work, and it helped solidify his reputation as one of the greatest"
"Gone from my sight ""Gone From My Sight,"" also known as the ""Parable of Immortality"" and ""What Is Dying"" is a poem (or prose poem) presumably written by the Rev. Luther F. Beecher (1813-1903), cousin of Henry Ward Beecher and Harriet Beecher Stowe. At least three publications credit the poem to Luther Beecher in printings shortly after his death in 1904. However, it is often attributed to Henry Van Dyke, probably due to his name appearing as the author in a widely distributed booklet by Barbara Karnes entitled ""Gone from My Sight."" This ""little blue book"" has been in print"
"Wordsworth uses simple language, mostly words of one syllable. In the opening quatrain, he describes the isolated and untouched area where Lucy lived, as well as her innocence and beauty, which he compares to that of a hidden flower in the second. The poem begins in a descriptive rather than narrative manner, and it is not until the line ""When Lucy ceased to be"" that the reader is made aware that the subject of the verse has died. Literary scholar Mark Jones describes this effect as finding the poem is ""over before it has begun"", while according to writer Margaret"
"Sleep and Poetry ""Sleep and Poetry"" (1816) is a poem by the English Romantic poet John Keats. It was started late one evening while staying the night at Leigh Hunt's cottage. It is often cited as a clear example of Keats's bower-centric poetry, yet it contains lines that make such a simplistic reading problematic, such as: ""First the realm I'll pass/Of Flora, and old Pan ... I must pass them for a nobler life,/Where I may find the agonies, the strife /Of human hearts"" (101-102; 123-125). Furthermore, Keats defends his early ""bower-centric"" subject matter, which hearkens back to the classical"
"1609 quarto. John Milton (1608–74) is considered one of the greatest English poets, and wrote at a time of religious flux and political upheaval. He is generally seen as the last major poet of the English Renaissance, though his most renowned epic poems were written in the Restoration period, including ""Paradise Lost"" (1667). Among the important poems Milton wrote during this period are ""L'Allegro"", 1631; ""Il Penseroso"", 1634; ""Comus"" (a masque), 1638; and ""Lycidas"" (1638). The early 17th century saw the emergence of this group of poets who wrote in a witty, complicated style. The most famous of the Metaphysicals"
"Charles Bansley Charles Bansley (fl. 1548), was an English poet. Bansley clearly wrote in the time of Henry VIII and Edward VI, but the dates of his birth and death are unknown. He is remarkable for a rhyming satire on the love of dress in women, which concludes with a benediction on the latter monarch, and commences with the line Bo pepe what have I spyed! There can be no doubt of Bansley's religious opinions. Speaking in his poem of the feminine love for light raiment, he says— From Rome, from Rome, thys carkered pryde, From Rome it came doubtles:"
"evening light, when winds scarce stir,""<br> ""The soul-light of thy face is pure as prayer."" Madre Mia Madre Mia is a poem by William Hope Hodgson. It is presented as the dedication to his novel The Boats of the ""Glen Carrig"". People may say thou art no longer young""<br> ""And yet, to me, thy youth was yesterday,""<br> ""A yesterday that seems""<br> ""Still mingled with my dreams.""<br> ""Ah! how the years have o'er thee flung""<br> ""Their soft mantilla, grey."" ""And e'en to them thou art not over old;""<br> ""How could'st thou be! Thy hair""<br> ""Hast scarcely lost its deep old glorious"
"universities across his empire. It inspired the popular Victorian era hymn ""Jesus Bids us Shine"" and the still popular song ""This Little Light of Mine"". The verse also appears in several major works of literature including James Fenimore Cooper's ""The Pioneers"" and Thomas Hardy's ""Far from the Madding Crowd"". In James Joyce's ""A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man"", a character is described as ""shining quietly under a bushel of Wicklow bran"". Hill notes that Father in heaven is a favourite expression of the author of Matthew's, occurring twenty times in his gospel. Some see it as a"
"Dominus illuminatio mea Dominus illuminatio mea is the motto of the University of Oxford and the opening words of Psalm 27, meaning ""The Lord is my light"". It has been in use at least since the second half of the sixteenth century, and it appears on the University's arms. It is also used by St Leo's College, University of Queensland and by Drew University in Madison, NJ. An article by Ivan Illich may help to explain this ancient university motto, at a time when scientists were progressively replacing the concept of vision as a gaze radiating from the pupil by"
"The Light That Failed The Light That Failed is a novel by the Nobel Prize-winning English author Rudyard Kipling that was first published in ""Lippincott's Monthly Magazine"" dated January 1891. Most of the novel is set in London, but many important events throughout the story occur in Sudan and Port Said. It follows the life of Dick Heldar, an artist and painter who goes blind, and his unrequited love for his childhood playmate, Maisie. It is Kipling's first novel, written when he was 26 years old, and is semi-autobiographical; being based upon his own unrequited love for Florence Garrard. Though"
"ruled as kings of England. The Anglo-Saxon saints Tancred, Torhtred and Tova provide a similar example, among siblings. In relation to English poetry, poets can call attention to certain words in a line of poetry by using alliteration. They can also use alliteration to create a pleasant, rhythmic effect. In the following poetic lines, notice how alliteration is used to emphasize words and to create rhythm: ""Give me the splendid silent sun with all his beams full-dazzling!' Walt Whitman, ""Give Me the Splendid Silent Sun"" “They all gazed and gazed upon this green stranger,/because everyone wondered what it could mean/"
"themes of eternity, communion with the dead, nature, and childhood. He was a ""poet of revelation"" who uses the Bible, Nature and his own experience to illustrate his vision of eternity. This gives Vaughan's poetry a particularly modern sound. Alliteration, conspicuous in Welsh poetry, is more extensively used by Vaughan than by most of his contemporaries writing English verse, noticeably in the opening to ""The Water-fall"". Vaughan drew on personal loss in two well-known poems: ""The World"" and ""They Are All Gone into the World of Light"". Another poem, ""The Retreat"", combines the theme of loss with the corruption of"
"life. He wrote: ”Only with sorrow thoughts are occurring, without sorrow there is no thoughtful mood…” The first poem of his almanac ""Poems from my Heart"" expresses such sad thoughts. “Being sleepless at midnight, I rise to play lute. The moon is visible through the curtains And a gentle breeze sways the cords of my robe. A lonely wild goose cries in the wilderness And is echoed by birds in the woods. As it circles, it gazes At me, alone, imbued with sadness.” ""(translated by Jerome Ch'en & Michael Bullock)"" Here the author recreated a particular background for his constant"
"Fiacha an tSolais Fiacha an tSolais ""(English: The Pursuit of Light)"" is the title of a poem by Irish poet Cathal Ó Searcaigh ""(English: Charles Sharkey)"", first put to paper in the 1990s. It has been on the Irish exam for the Leaving Certificate in the Republic of Ireland. The poet describes the life of an alcoholic who was found dead at the age of 29 on a cold winter day outdoors in County Donegal in Ireland. The final stanza beings with: ""Ach an té a dhéanann faillí i bhfiacha an tsolais (English: But he who neglects the pursuit of"
"A Little Girl Lost ""A Little Girl Lost"" is a poem written by the English poet William Blake. It was first published as part of his collection ""Songs of Innocence and of Experience"" in 1794. The poem is written as a clear authorial commentary from Blake, focusing on the tension between human passions and societal expectations. In her analysis of the poem for the journal ""The Explicator"", academic Katelin E. Trowbridge describes the poem's narratorial voice as a projection of ""his own passionate voice"" about the subject of pleasure and social expectations. Trowbridge focuses on the Girl's fall from innocence"
"said, in Summer's evening hour Flashes the golden-colour'd flower A fair electric flame: And so shall flash my love-charg'd eye When all the heart’s big ecstasy Shoots rapid through the frame! (lines 85–96) The poem is a love poem that focuses on nature and scenery. The lines focusing on consummation suggest possible doubts within Coleridge on his ability to go through with a real sexual act and a real relationship as opposed to an idealised fantasy. Another cause of concern for Coleridge within these lines is the possibility of having to give up poetry for his marriage. These lines also"
"October 1934 his poem 'Life' won a prize from, and publication in, the ""Sunday Referee"", a national paper. Another poem was published in Cyril Connolly's ""Horizon"" magazine in 1940 and his first volume of poems, ""The Sun My Monument,"" was launched in 1944. This was followed by ""The Bloom of Candles"" (1947) and ""My Many-coated Man"" (1955). Several poems written in the early 1940s reflect the atmosphere of the war, but also capture the beauty of the English countryside. The poem ""Twelfth Night"" from ""My Many-coated Man"" was set for unaccompanied mixed choir by American composer Samuel Barber in 1968."
"living at Olney. John Newton published the poem the next year in his ""Twenty-six Letters on Religious Subjects; to which are added Hymns"" (1774). The words were composed by William Cowper (1731–1800). Comprising six verses, they were written in 1773, just before the onset of a depressive illness, during which Cowper attempted suicide by drowning. The text was first published by Cowper's friend, John Henry Newton, in his ""Twenty-six Letters on Religious Subjects; to which are added Hymns"" in 1774. The hymn was later published in ""Olney Hymns"" which Cowper co-wrote with Newton. Entitled ""Conflict: Light Shining out of Darkness"","