[syndicate] re: The Recital

[fm]

jeff harrison a écrit :
> On the behalf of Ezra Pound, thanks!
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> Each line from a sonnet is offered complete and largely unchanged from 
> how it is found in editions of the author's poems: I modernized the 
> spelling in the lines by Wyatt, Raleigh, Milton, Daniel, and 
> Gascoigne, and I did not retain capitalization of the first word of 
> any of the sonnet lines, nor did I retain end punctuation.
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> Appius told Minutius ah sweet content, where is thy mild abode
> Minutius told Calphurnia we ask and ask - thou smilest and art still
> Calphurnia told Corbulo loathsome and foul with hideous leprosy
> Corbulo told Horatio do never appear but in the dark or night
> Horatio told Icilius my lost delights, now clean from sight of land
> Icilius told Numitorius how many thoughts of what entombéd hopes
> Numitorius told Virginia and at thy growing virtues fret their spleen
> Icilius told Virginia now the black planet shadowed Arctic snows
> Horatio told Virginia the world shall find this miracle in me
> Corbulo told Virginia restless through Fortune's mingled scenes I went
> Calphurnia told Virginia ruin hath taught me thus to ruminate
> Minutius told Virginia some prescience of thee with the blossoms white
> Appius told Virginia each hour a day each day a year did seem
> Virginia told Appius as white their bark, so white this lady's hours
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