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Sonnet Sweet Poets Of The Gentle Antique Line

Sweet poets of the gentle antique line,

That made the hue of beauty all eterne;

And gave earth's melodies a silver turn,--Where did you steal your art so right divine?--Sweetly ye memoried every golden

Of your ladies' tresses: -- teach me how to

Death's lone decaying and oblivion

From the sweet forehead of a lady mine.

The golden clusters of enamouring

Glow'd in poetic pictures sweetly well;--Why should not tresses dusk, that are so

On the live brow, have an eternal

In poesy? -- dark eyes are dearer

Than orbs that mock the hyacinthine-bell.

John Keats' sonnet, "Blue! 'Tis the life of heaven," &c. was a reply to this sonnet by Reynolds.

Printed in The Garden Of Florence &c, 1821.

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John Hamilton Reynolds

John Hamilton Reynolds (1794–1852) was an English poet, satirist, critic, and playwright. He was a close friend and correspondent of poet John K…

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