SONNETS AND CANZONETS. BY A. BRONSON ALCOTT. “LOVE CAN SUN THE REALMS OF LIGHT.” _Schiller._ BOSTON: ROBERTS BROTHERS. 1882. _Copyright, 1882_, BY A. BRONSON ALCOTT. UNIVERSITY PRESS: JOHN WILSON AND SON, CAMBRIDGE. [Illustration] CONTENTS. INTRODUCTION. PAGE TO A. BRONSON ALCOTT, A LETTER BY F. B. SANBORN 5-10 AN ESSAY ON THE SONNET 11-35 SONNETS OF ILLUSTRATION 21-35 I. Love in Spring 21 II. The Maiden in April 22 III. The Estrangement 23 IV. Love in Time 24 V. To those of Noble Heart 24 VI. The Ocean a blessed God 27 VII. The Nightingale 28 VIII. The Fair Saint 29 IX. Love a Poor Palmer 30 X. Love against Love 31 XI. Death 32 XII. Ah, Sweet Content! 34 XIII. The Poet’s Immortality 34 PART FIRST. PROEM 39 DOMESTIC SONNETS AND CANZONETS 41-8 PART SECOND. SONNETS OF CHARACTER 94-145 A PROPHETIC ODE 146-149 [Illustration] [Illustration] TO A. BRONSON ALCOTT, UPON READING HIS OCTOGENARIAN POEMS.