Types of English PoetryRudolf Kirk, Clara Marburg Kirk Macmillan, 1940 - 663 pages |
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Page 238
... thou vainly question thus Of Rustum ? I am here , whom thou hast called By challenge forth : make good thy vaunt , or yield ! Is it with Rustum only thou wouldst fight ? Rash boy , men look on Rustum's face and flee . For well I know ...
... thou vainly question thus Of Rustum ? I am here , whom thou hast called By challenge forth : make good thy vaunt , or yield ! Is it with Rustum only thou wouldst fight ? Rash boy , men look on Rustum's face and flee . For well I know ...
Page 249
... thou mightest live too , my son , my son ! Or rather would that I , even I myself , Might now be lying on this bloody sand , Near death , and by an ignorant stroke of thine , Not thou of mine ! and I might die , not thou ; And I , not thou ...
... thou mightest live too , my son , my son ! Or rather would that I , even I myself , Might now be lying on this bloody sand , Near death , and by an ignorant stroke of thine , Not thou of mine ! and I might die , not thou ; And I , not thou ...
Page 602
... Thou madest Life in man and brute ; Thou madest Death ; and lo , thy foot Is on the skull which thou hast made . Thou wilt not leave us in the dust : Thou madest man , he knows not why , He thinks he was not made to die ; And thou hast ...
... Thou madest Life in man and brute ; Thou madest Death ; and lo , thy foot Is on the skull which thou hast made . Thou wilt not leave us in the dust : Thou madest man , he knows not why , He thinks he was not made to die ; And thou hast ...
Contents
PREFACE | 1 |
INTRODUCTION TO NARRATIVE POETRY | 38 |
EDMUND SPENSER | 42 |
Copyright | |
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