Sonnets, and Sonnets on English Dramatic Poets (1590-1650) | Page 3

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X. Thomas Heywood
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XI. George Chapman
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XII. John Marston
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XIII. John Day
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XIV. James Shirley
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XV. The Tribe of Benjamin
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XVI. Anonymous Plays: "Arden of Feversham"
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XVII. Anonymous Plays
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XVIII. Anonymous Plays
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XIX. The Many
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XX. The Many
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XXI. Epilogue
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SONNETS
HOPE AND FEAR
Beneath the shadow of dawn's aerial cope,
With eyes enkindled as the
sun's own sphere,
Hope from the front of youth in godlike cheer

Looks Godward, past the shades where blind men grope
Round the
dark door that prayers nor dreams can ope,
And makes for joy the
very darkness dear
That gives her wide wings play; nor dreams that
fear
At noon may rise and pierce the heart of hope.
Then, when the

soul leaves off to dream and yearn,
May truth first purge her eyesight
to discern
What once being known leaves time no power to appal;

Till youth at last, ere yet youth be not, learn
The kind wise word that
falls from years that fall--
"Hope thou not much, and fear thou not at
all."
AFTER SUNSET
"Si quis piorum Manibus locus."
I
Straight from the sun's grave in the deep clear west
A sweet strong
wind blows, glad of life: and I,
Under the soft keen stardawn whence
the sky
Takes life renewed, and all night's godlike breast
Palpitates,
gradually revealed at rest
By growth and change