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قراءة كتاب Sonnets and Canzonets
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SONNETS
AND
CANZONETS.
BY
A. BRONSON ALCOTT.
“Love can sun the realms of light.”
Schiller.
BOSTON:
ROBERTS BROTHERS.
1882.
Copyright, 1882,
By A. Bronson Alcott.
University Press:
John Wilson and Son, Cambridge.
Transcriber Notes:
Obvious misspellings were corrected. Uncertain or antiquated spellings or ancient words were not corrected.
Errors in punctuation and inconsistent hyphenation were not corrected unless otherwise noted.

CONTENTS.
INTRODUCTION. | Page | |
To A. Bronson Alcott, a Letter by F. B. Sanborn | 5-10 | |
An Essay on the Sonnet |
11-35 |
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Sonnets of Illustration |
21-35 |
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I. | Love in Spring | 21 |
II. | The Maiden in April | 22 |
III. | The Estrangement | 23 |
IV. | Love in Time | 24 |
V. | To those of Noble Heart | 24 |
VI. | The Ocean a blessed God | 27 |
VII. | The Nightingale | 28 |
VIII. | The Fair Saint | 29 |
IX. | Love a Poor Palmer | 30 |
X. | Love against Love | 31 |
XI. | Death | 32 |
XII. | Ah, Sweet Content! | 34 |
XIII. | The Poet’s Immortality | 34 |
PART FIRST. |
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Proem | 39 | |
Domestic Sonnets and Canzonets | 41-8 | |
PART SECOND. |
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Sonnets of Character | 94-145 | |
A Prophetic Ode | 146-149 |


TO
A. BRONSON ALCOTT,
UPON READING HIS OCTOGENARIAN POEMS.
The period to which the scholar of two and eighty years belongs, is seldom that of his youngest readers: it is more likely to be the epoch of his own golden youth, when his masters were before his eyes, and his companions were the books and the friends of his heart. Thus the aged Landor could not bring his thoughts down from the grand forms of Greek and Roman literature to which they were early accustomed; he had swerved now and then from that loyalty in middle life, impressed and acted upon as he was by the great political events of the Napoleonic