The Sonnet
What is a sonnet? 'TLs the pearly shell That murmurs of the lar-olf murmuring sea, A piocious jenel caivou most curiously; J: u> a little pictiuc panned nvii. \\hat is a sonnet r , 'lis liic tear tiiat lull JU'rom a great poets liiddeu oestaey ; A twoiCU'gou sworu, a star, a wug . . . xhia wat> the llanie inat shook avhu Dante's breath, The solemn organ wuoroon Milton played, And the clear glass where' Shakespeare's shadow falls; A sea this is—beware wlio ventureth! Jb'oi' like a fiord the narrow floor is laic Mid-ocean deep sheer to the mountain walks. —Richard Watson Gilder.
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Horowhenua Chronicle, 6 November 1915, Page 3
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101The Sonnet Horowhenua Chronicle, 6 November 1915, Page 3
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