...lustral rite or dire portent, Of its own arduous fulness reverent: Carve it in ivory or in ebony, As was kin of mine Had come; and I spake — and lo! that sig impcarled and orient. A Sonnet is a coin: its face reveals The soul, — its converse, to what Power...

...dead deathless hour," — but also the vital and primal element of its being; its face and converse. "A sonnet is a coin : its face reveals The soul — its converse to what Power 'tis due." It is this bipartite nature, then, which is the true seal of the sonnet ; and Rossetti's success as...

...lustral rite or dire portent, Of its own arduous fulness reverent: Carve it in ivory or in ebony, As day or night may rule; and let time see Its flowering...breath, In Charon's palm it pay the toll to death. "A moment's monument" is the monument of a moment, to a moment, and although the subsequent appositional...

...notable of which being the promise of immortality. It is with this consolation that the sonnet concludes: A Sonnet is a coin; its face reveals The soul, —...breath, In Charon's palm it pay the toll to Death. (11. 9-14) Pater also celebrates these functions of art. Marius, at one point of his intellectual development,...

...lustral rite or dire portent, Of its own arduous fullness reverent: Carve it in ivory or in ebon\, As Day or Night may rule; and let Time see Its flowering...reveals The soul, — its converse, to what Power 't is due: Whether for tribute to the august appeals Of Life, or dower in Love's high retinue, It serve;...

...lustral rite or dire portent, Of its own arduous fullness reverent: Carve it in ivory or in ebony, As Day or Night may rule; and let Time see Its flowering...converse, to what Power 'tis due: Whether for tribute in the august appeals Of Life, or dower in Love's high retinue, It serve; or, 'mid the dark wharfs...

...the sonnet form itself: §> A Sonnet is a moment's monument,— ». Carve it in ivory or in ebony, As Day or Night may rule; and let Time see Its flowering crest impcarled and orient. A Sonnet is a coin: its face reveals The Soul,— its converse, to what Power...

...lustral rite or dire portent, Of its own arduous fulness reverent; Carve it in ivory or in ebony, As Day or Night may rule; and let Time see Its flowering...appeals Of Life, or dower in Love's high retinue, 36 Ebenezer Elliot, „The Powers of the Sonnet". Sonnets on the Sonnet: An Anthology. Ed. Matthew...

...lustral rite or dire portent, Of its own arduous fulness reverent: Carve it in ivory or in ebony, As Day or Night may rule; and let Time see Its flowering...and orient. A Sonnet is a coin: its face reveals The soul,-its converse, to what Power 'tis due: Whether for tribute to the august appeals Of Life, or dower...

...lustral rite or dire portent. Of its own arduous fullness reverent: Carve it in ivory or in ebony, As Day or Night may rule; and let Time see Its flowering...in Love's high retinue, It serve; or, 'mid the dark wharfs cavemous breath. In Charon's palm it pay the toll to Death. Part I Youth and Change SONNET I:...