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  2. Sonnet 19 - Wikipedia

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    Sonnet 19 is one of 154 sonnets published by the English playwright and poet William Shakespeare in 1609. It is considered by some to be the final sonnet of the initial procreation sequence . The sonnet addresses time directly, as it allows time its great power to destroy all things in nature, but the poem forbids time to erode the young man's ...

  3. When I Consider How My Light Is Spent - Wikipedia

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    The sonnet was first published in Milton's 1673 Poems in his autograph notebook, known as the "Trinity Manuscript" from its location in the Wren Library of Trinity College, Cambridge. He gave it the number 19, but in the published book it was numbered 16, [ 2 ] [ 3 ] so both numbers are used for it.

  4. List of works by William Shakespeare - Wikipedia

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    [19] Summary Timon of Athens is an apparently wealthy man in his community who freely gives of his abundance to those around him. Eventually, it becomes apparent that he is living on credit, when all of his creditors ask for payment on the same day. Timon asks for his friends to help, but is refused.

  5. Fernando Buyser - Wikipedia

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    Fernando A. Buyser was born to a wealthy family of Don Gregorio Buyser y Virgeneza and Doña Eugenia Aquino y Gumba [2] [3] on May 30, 1879 [4] in Kalunangan (known previously as Nazaret) in the town of Merida in the province of Leyte. [2]

  6. Tottel's Miscellany - Wikipedia

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    It was also the last large use of sonnet form for several decades, in published work, until the appearance of Philip Sidney's sonnet sequence Astrophel and Stella (1591) and the anthology The Phoenix Nest (1593). [4] Most of the poems included in the anthology were written in the 1530s but were only published in the first edition in 1557.

  7. Sonnet - Wikipedia

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    The 60 poems there have the typical German sonnet form, but are written in the long-lined free rhythms developed by Ernst Stadler. [123] Patrick Bridgwater, writing in 1985, called the work "without question the best single collection produced by a German war poet in 1914–18," but adds that it "is to this day virtually unknown even in Germany."

  8. List of poems by William Wordsworth - Wikipedia

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    IT is a beauteous evening, calm and free 1802, August "It is a beauteous evening, calm and free," Miscellaneous Sonnets: 1807 On the Extinction of the Venetian Republic: 1802, August "Once did she hold the gorgeous East in fee;" Sonnets dedicated to Liberty; Poems dedicated to National Independence and Liberty. (1845–) 1807 The King of Sweden

  9. It is a beauteous evening, calm and free - Wikipedia

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    "It is a beauteous evening" is the only "personal" sonnet he wrote at this time; others written in 1802 were political in nature and "Dedicated to Liberty" in the 1807 collection. The simile "quiet as a nun / Breathless with adoration" is often cited as an example of how a poet achieves effects.