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 343
... cold , and hear the sea Breathe o'er my dying brain its last monotony . Some might lament that I were cold , As I , when this sweet day is gone , Which my lost heart , too soon grown old , Insults with this untimely moan ; They might ...
... cold , and hear the sea Breathe o'er my dying brain its last monotony . Some might lament that I were cold , As I , when this sweet day is gone , Which my lost heart , too soon grown old , Insults with this untimely moan ; They might ...
Page 348
... cold command , Until the subject of a tyrant's will Became , worse fate , the abject of his own , Which spurred him , like an outspent horse , to death . None wrought his lips in truth - entangling lines Which smiled the lie his tongue ...
... cold command , Until the subject of a tyrant's will Became , worse fate , the abject of his own , Which spurred him , like an outspent horse , to death . None wrought his lips in truth - entangling lines Which smiled the lie his tongue ...
Page 356
... cold hill's side . ' I saw pale kings and princes too , Pale warriors , death - pale were they all ; Who cried- " La belle Dame sans Merci Hath thee in thrall ! " ' I saw their starved lips in the gloam With horrid warning gapèd wide ...
... cold hill's side . ' I saw pale kings and princes too , Pale warriors , death - pale were they all ; Who cried- " La belle Dame sans Merci Hath thee in thrall ! " ' I saw their starved lips in the gloam With horrid warning gapèd wide ...
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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