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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... gone , His last sea - fight is fought , His work of glory done . It was not in the battle , No tempest gave the shock , She sprang no fatal leak , She ran upon no rock ; His sword was in the sheath , His fingers held the pen , When ...
... gone , His last sea - fight is fought , His work of glory done . It was not in the battle , No tempest gave the shock , She sprang no fatal leak , She ran upon no rock ; His sword was in the sheath , His fingers held the pen , When ...
Page 477
... gone Sibylla's name , And from the roofs the twisted chimney - stacks— Are ye too changed , ye hills ? See , ' tis no foot of unfamiliar men To - night from Oxford up your pathway strays ! Here came I often , often , in old days ...
... gone Sibylla's name , And from the roofs the twisted chimney - stacks— Are ye too changed , ye hills ? See , ' tis no foot of unfamiliar men To - night from Oxford up your pathway strays ! Here came I often , often , in old days ...
Page 480
... gone , and thou art gone as well ! Yes , thou art gone ! and round me too the night In ever - nearing circle weaves her shade . I see her veil draw soft across the day , I feel her slowly chilling breath invade The cheek grown thin ...
... gone , and thou art gone as well ! Yes , thou art gone ! and round me too the night In ever - nearing circle weaves her shade . I see her veil draw soft across the day , I feel her slowly chilling breath invade The cheek grown thin ...
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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