...innocence, And pure religion breathing household laws. 'Nuns fret not at their convent's narrow room Nuns fret not at their convent's narrow room; And...loom, Sit blithe and happy; bees that soar for bloom, High as the highest Peak of Furness-fells, Will murmur by the hour in foxglove bells: In truth the...

...palm it pay the toll to Death. DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI Nuns fret not at their convent's narrow room Nuns fret not at their convent's narrow room; And...loom, Sit blithe and happy; bees that soar for bloom, High as the highest Peak of Furness-fells, Will murmur by the hour in foxglove bells; In truth the...

...sonnet. "Nuns fret not" is, of course, about confinement, both within a place and by the sonnet form: Nuns fret not at their convent's narrow room; And...wheel, the weaver at his loom, Sit blithe and happy. . .3? Almost imperceptibly, the focus shifts from persons actually confined to persons confined by...

...another famous sonnet where he hopes to ply "the Sonnet's scanty plot of ground" in the same way as "Maids at the Wheel, the Weaver at his Loom, / Sit blithe and happy" (P2V 133). The same sonnet goes on to claim that he seeks in this project to shed "the weight of too...

...Hollander's "narrow cell" compacts two of Wordsworth's punning tropes for stanza, here a sonnet stanza: "Nuns fret not at their convent's narrow room; / And hermits are contented with their cells." Wordsworth's sonnet also speaks of "the Sonnet's scanty plot of ground."14 (Lewis Carroll might say...

...giv'n, Queen both for beauty and for majesty. (1807) 205. 'Nuns fret not at their convent's narrow room' Nuns fret not at their convent's narrow room; And...loom, Sit blithe and happy; bees that soar for bloom, High as the highest peak of Furness Fells, Will murmur by the hour in foxglove bells: In truth, the...

...yet thy heart The lowliest dudes on itself did lay. 'Nuns fret not at their Convent's narrow room' Nuns fret not at their Convent's narrow room; And...Loom, Sit blithe and happy; Bees that soar for bloom, High as the highest Peak of Furness Fells, Will murmur by the hour in Foxglove bells: In truth, the...

...offers another pattern of metaphor as an organizing principle, although one not grouped by quatrain: Nuns fret not at their convent's narrow room; And...loom. Sit blithe and happy; bees that soar for bloom, High as the highest Peak of Furness-fells, Will murmur by the hour in foxglove bells: In truth the...

...be giv'n, Queen both for beauty and for majesty. 205. 'Nuns fret not at their convent's narrow room' Nuns fret not at their convent's narrow room; And...citadels; Maids at the wheel, the weaver at his loom, (1787) (1802) (1807) Sit blithe and happy; bees that soar for bloom, High as the highest peak of Furness...

...of that of Havelock Ellis whose account of Spanish nuns as bandits and bullfighters is well known.3 Nuns fret not at their convent's narrow room, And hermits are contented with their cells. Not so, however, the nuns and hermits of Zamora during the 1270s. When last there, Suero Perez had...