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 266
... cloud ; The Moon was at its edge . The thick black cloud was cleft , and still The Moon was at its side : Like waters shot from some high crag , The lightning fell with never a jag , A river steep and wide . The bodies of the ship's ...
... cloud ; The Moon was at its edge . The thick black cloud was cleft , and still The Moon was at its side : Like waters shot from some high crag , The lightning fell with never a jag , A river steep and wide . The bodies of the ship's ...
Page 286
... cloud at once and shower , Joy , Lady ! is the spirit and the power , Which wedding Nature to us gives in dower A new Earth and new Heaven , Undreamt of by the sensual and the proud- Joy is the sweet voice , Joy the luminous cloud- We ...
... cloud at once and shower , Joy , Lady ! is the spirit and the power , Which wedding Nature to us gives in dower A new Earth and new Heaven , Undreamt of by the sensual and the proud- Joy is the sweet voice , Joy the luminous cloud- We ...
Page 429
... cloud All billowy - bosomed , over - bowed By many benedictions - sun's And moon's and evening - star's at once- And so , you , looking and loving best , Conscious grew , your passion drew Cloud , sunset , moonrise , star - shine too ...
... cloud All billowy - bosomed , over - bowed By many benedictions - sun's And moon's and evening - star's at once- And so , you , looking and loving best , Conscious grew , your passion drew Cloud , sunset , moonrise , star - shine too ...
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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