Fifteen Poets: Chaucer, Spenser, Shakespeare [and Others] ...Clarendon Press, 1941 - 503 pages Selections of the best work of the masters of English poetry from Chaucer to Arnold. Each group of selections is preceded by short essays of appreciation and summaries of the poets' lives. |
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Page 87
... blow Might be the be - all and the end - all here , But here , upon this bank and shoal of time , We'd jump the life to come . But in these cases We still have judgment here ; that we but teach Bloody instructions , which , being taught ...
... blow Might be the be - all and the end - all here , But here , upon this bank and shoal of time , We'd jump the life to come . But in these cases We still have judgment here ; that we but teach Bloody instructions , which , being taught ...
Page 99
... BLOW , blow , thou winter wind , Thou art not so unkind As man's ingratitude ; Thy tooth is not so keen , Because thou art not seen , Although thy breath be rude . Heigh - ho ! sing , heigh - ho ! unto the green holly : Most friendship ...
... BLOW , blow , thou winter wind , Thou art not so unkind As man's ingratitude ; Thy tooth is not so keen , Because thou art not seen , Although thy breath be rude . Heigh - ho ! sing , heigh - ho ! unto the green holly : Most friendship ...
Page 339
... blow , - A people starved and stabbed in the untilled field , - An army , which liberticide and prey Makes as a two - edged sword to all who wield , - Golden and sanguine laws which tempt and slay ; Religion Christless , Godless - a ...
... blow , - A people starved and stabbed in the untilled field , - An army , which liberticide and prey Makes as a two - edged sword to all who wield , - Golden and sanguine laws which tempt and slay ; Religion Christless , Godless - a ...
Contents
GEOFFREY CHAUCER By H S BENNETT | 8 |
The Dream | 33 |
The Fight of the Red Cross Knight and the Heathen | 54 |
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