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 79
... breath , Hath had no power yet upon thy beauty : Thou art not conquer'd ; beauty's ensign yet Is crimson in thy lips and in thy cheeks , And death's pale flag is not advanced there . Tybalt , liest thou there in thy bloody sheet ? O ...
... breath , Hath had no power yet upon thy beauty : Thou art not conquer'd ; beauty's ensign yet Is crimson in thy lips and in thy cheeks , And death's pale flag is not advanced there . Tybalt , liest thou there in thy bloody sheet ? O ...
Page 93
... breath at all ? Thou'lt come no more , Never , never , never , never , never ! Pray you , undo this button : thank you , sir . Do you see this ? Look on her , look , her lips , Look there , look there ! Edgar . [ Dies . He faints ! -my ...
... breath at all ? Thou'lt come no more , Never , never , never , never , never ! Pray you , undo this button : thank you , sir . Do you see this ? Look on her , look , her lips , Look there , look there ! Edgar . [ Dies . He faints ! -my ...
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... breath , A war - embrace of wrestling life and death ? EPITAPH STOP , Christian passer - by ! -Stop , child of God , And read with gentle breast . Beneath this sod A poet lies , or that which once seem'd he . O , lift one thought in ...
... breath , A war - embrace of wrestling life and death ? EPITAPH STOP , Christian passer - by ! -Stop , child of God , And read with gentle breast . Beneath this sod A poet lies , or that which once seem'd he . O , lift one thought in ...
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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