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 34
... half so swete , Nor of acorde half so mete ; " For ther was noon of hem that feyned To singe , for ech of hem him peyned ? To finde out mery crafty3 notes ; They ne spared not hir throtes . And , sooth to seyn , my chambre was Ful wel ...
... half so swete , Nor of acorde half so mete ; " For ther was noon of hem that feyned To singe , for ech of hem him peyned ? To finde out mery crafty3 notes ; They ne spared not hir throtes . And , sooth to seyn , my chambre was Ful wel ...
Page 388
... half sick of shadows , ' said The Lady of Shalott . So all sit before their mirror ; so all see life in its silver - foiled deception rolling by ; so all grow weary of shadow , and so for all , when eyes are turned from the shadow to ...
... half sick of shadows , ' said The Lady of Shalott . So all sit before their mirror ; so all see life in its silver - foiled deception rolling by ; so all grow weary of shadow , and so for all , when eyes are turned from the shadow to ...
Page 499
... half the year in Hades and half on earth . Proteus . An ' old man of the sea ' in Greek mythology , with the power of changing his shape as often as he wished . Psyche . A girl loved by Cupid , who visited her only in the dark . When ...
... half the year in Hades and half on earth . Proteus . An ' old man of the sea ' in Greek mythology , with the power of changing his shape as often as he wished . Psyche . A girl loved by Cupid , who visited her only in the dark . When ...
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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