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 63
... doth let vs oft forsee , And oft of secret ill bids vs beware : That is our Selfe , whom though we do not see , Yet each doth in him selfe it well perceiue to bee . Therefore a God him sage Antiquity Did wisely make , and good Agdistes ...
... doth let vs oft forsee , And oft of secret ill bids vs beware : That is our Selfe , whom though we do not see , Yet each doth in him selfe it well perceiue to bee . Therefore a God him sage Antiquity Did wisely make , and good Agdistes ...
Page 115
... doth much less appear , That some more timely - happy spirits endu❜th . Yet be it less or more , or soon or slow ... doth hold , And the gilded car of day , His glowing axle doth allay In the steep Atlantic stream , And the slopes sun ...
... doth much less appear , That some more timely - happy spirits endu❜th . Yet be it less or more , or soon or slow ... doth hold , And the gilded car of day , His glowing axle doth allay In the steep Atlantic stream , And the slopes sun ...
Page 369
... doth look , Like puzzled urchin on an aged crone Who keepeth clos'd a wond'rous riddle - book , As spectacled she sits in chimney nook . But soon his eyes grew brilliant , when she told His lady's purpose ; and he scarce could brook ...
... doth look , Like puzzled urchin on an aged crone Who keepeth clos'd a wond'rous riddle - book , As spectacled she sits in chimney nook . But soon his eyes grew brilliant , when she told His lady's purpose ; and he scarce could brook ...
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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