Sonnets of the Head and Heart (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Excerpt from Sonnets of the Head and Heart

Through storied glass: so in my soul that seems A sense-embowered cell, the rays that beat Fervent Without, are robbed of all their heat.

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Excerpt from Sonnets of the Head and Heart

Praise of the Body

As one for whom the dazzling noonday beams
Are tempered in the cloister's dim retreat,
Surveys in gules and azure at his feet
The sun's white heraldry, that richly streams
Through storied glass: so in my soul that seems
A sense-embowered cell, the rays that beat
Fervent without, are robbed of all their heat,
And I am bathed in gules and azure dreams.

Ah, much-abuséd body that of old
Men deemed a glass opaque that baffled still
The efforts of the spirit after light,
I love thee for thy rich and manifold
Division of that light - so dost thou fill
The soul with entertainment infinite.

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Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com

This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.