...golden Fire; The Birds in vain their amorous Descant joyn; Or chearful Fields resume their green Attire: These Ears, alas! for other Notes repine, A different...imperfect Joys expire. Yet Morning smiles the busy Race to chear, And new-born Pleasure brings to happier Men: The Fields to all their wonted Tribute bear: To...

...this sonnet within the tradition of Sensibility; for example, the sonnet turns upon Gray's lament, "My lonely anguish melts no heart but mine; / And in my breast the imperfect joys expire." Written during the early 1740s but published posthumously in 1775, Gray's sonnet, despite its imperfections,...

...golden fire: The birds in vain their amorous descant join, Or cheerful fields resume their green attire. These ears, alas! for other notes repine; A different...expire; Yet morning smiles the busy race to cheer, And new-bom pleasure brings to happier men; The fields to all their wonted tribute bear; To warm their...

...59) — and of the sonnet on Richard West, where intense feeling is muffled for want of a vehicle — "My lonely anguish melts no heart but mine; / And in my breast the imperfect joys expire" (p. 67). 86 is about a happy/sad moment, and must be read with an auspicious and a dropping eye. The...

...praise of the sonnet in the Preface to Lyrical Ballads, Wordsworth focuses on the crux of the poem: A different object do these eyes require; My lonely...mine; And in my breast the imperfect joys expire; (11. 6-8) I fruitless mourn to him that cannot hear, And weep the more because I weep in vain. (11....

...golden fire: The birds in vain their amorous descant join, Or cheerful fields resume their green attire: These ears, alas! for other notes repine, A different...little loves the birds complain. I fruitless mourn to him that cannot hear, And weep the more because I weep in vain. Wordsworth seems to assume what...

...cheerful fields resume their green attire:/ These ears alas! for other notes repine;M different objecl do these eyes require; /My lonely anguish melts no...bear;/ To warm their little loves the birds complain. / Ifruitless mourn to him that cannot hear, /And weep the more becauselweep in vain ("Sonnet on the...

...mysteriously performs for Gray the work of true grief: Yet morning smiles the busy race to cheer. And their newborn pleasure brings to happier men; The fields...bear; To warm their little loves the birds complain: 1 fruitless mourn to him that cannot hear. And weep the more, because I weep in vain. Death is real,...

...golden Fire: The birds in vain their amorous Descant join; Or cheerful fields resume their green attire: These ears, alas! for other notes repine, A different...little loves the birds complain: I fruitless mourn to him that cannot hear, And weep the more because I weep in vain. From the first line, Gray's poem...