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 89
... hands are here ! Ha ! they pluck out mine eyes . Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood Clean from my hand ? No , this my hand will rather The multitudinous seas incarnadine , Making the green one red . ( Macbeth , u . ii ...
... hands are here ! Ha ! they pluck out mine eyes . Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood Clean from my hand ? No , this my hand will rather The multitudinous seas incarnadine , Making the green one red . ( Macbeth , u . ii ...
Page 139
... hand in hand , with wandering steps and slow , Through Eden took their solitary way . ( Paradise Lost , Bk . XII , ll . 574-649 . ) SAMSON AGONISTES Manoa . Come , come , no time for lamentation now , Nor much more cause , Samson hath ...
... hand in hand , with wandering steps and slow , Through Eden took their solitary way . ( Paradise Lost , Bk . XII , ll . 574-649 . ) SAMSON AGONISTES Manoa . Come , come , no time for lamentation now , Nor much more cause , Samson hath ...
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... hand , and have no fear ! " Said Christabel , ' How camest thou here ? ' And the lady , whose voice was faint and ... hand ' ( thus ended she ) , ' And help a wretched maid to flee . ' Then Christabel stretched forth her hand , And ...
... hand , and have no fear ! " Said Christabel , ' How camest thou here ? ' And the lady , whose voice was faint and ... hand ' ( thus ended she ) , ' And help a wretched maid to flee . ' Then Christabel stretched forth her hand , And ...
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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