<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=540099" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Scorn Not the Sonnet</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Scorn not the Sonnet; Critic, you have frowned, <br>Mindless of its just honours; with this key <br>Shakspeare unlocked his heart; the melody <br>Of this small lute gave ease to Petrarch's wound; <br>A thousand times this pipe did Tasso sound; <br>With it Camoens soothed an exile's grief; <br>The Sonnet glittered a gay myrtle leaf <br>Amid the cypress with which Dante crowned <br>His visionary brow: a glow-worm lamp, <br>It cheered mild Spenser, called from Faery-land <br>To struggle through dark ways; and when a damp <br>Fell round the path of Milton, in his hand <br>The Thing became a trumpet; whence he blew <br>Soul-animating strains--alas, too few!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=William+Wordsworth">William Wordsworth</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=540099" data-title="Scorn Not the Sonnet de William Wordsworth" data-description="Scorn not the Sonnet; Critic, you have frowned, Mindless of its just honours; with this key Shakspeare unlocked his heart; the melody Of this small lute gave ease to Petrarch's wound; A thousand times this pipe did Tasso sound; With it Camoen..."></div> </div> </div>

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