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 99
... green corn - field did pass , In the spring time , the only pretty ring time , When birds do sing , hey ding a ding , ding ; Sweet lovers love the spring . Between the acres of the rye , With a hey , and a ho , and a hey nonino , These ...
... green corn - field did pass , In the spring time , the only pretty ring time , When birds do sing , hey ding a ding , ding ; Sweet lovers love the spring . Between the acres of the rye , With a hey , and a ho , and a hey nonino , These ...
Page 359
... green altar , O mysterious priest , Lead'st thou that heifer lowing at the skies , And all her silken flanks with garlands drest ? What little town by river or sea shore , Or mountain - built with peaceful citadel , Is emptied of its ...
... green altar , O mysterious priest , Lead'st thou that heifer lowing at the skies , And all her silken flanks with garlands drest ? What little town by river or sea shore , Or mountain - built with peaceful citadel , Is emptied of its ...
Page 365
... green Of our own vallies : so I will begin Now while I cannot hear the city's din ; Now while the early budders are just new , And run in mazes of the youngest hue About old forests ; while the willow trails Its delicate amber ; and the ...
... green Of our own vallies : so I will begin Now while I cannot hear the city's din ; Now while the early budders are just new , And run in mazes of the youngest hue About old forests ; while the willow trails Its delicate amber ; and the ...
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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