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 342
... heart ; - As I must on thine , Oh , beloved as thou art ! Oh lift me from the grass ! I die ! I faint ! I fail ! Let thy love in kisses rain On my lips and eyelids pale . My cheek is cold and white , alas ! My heart beats loud and fast ...
... heart ; - As I must on thine , Oh , beloved as thou art ! Oh lift me from the grass ! I die ! I faint ! I fail ! Let thy love in kisses rain On my lips and eyelids pale . My cheek is cold and white , alas ! My heart beats loud and fast ...
Page 367
... heart was otherwhere : She sigh'd for Agnes ' dreams , the sweetest of the year . • So , purposing each moment to retire , She linger'd still . Meantime , across the moors , Had come young Porphyro , with heart on fire For Madeline ...
... heart was otherwhere : She sigh'd for Agnes ' dreams , the sweetest of the year . • So , purposing each moment to retire , She linger'd still . Meantime , across the moors , Had come young Porphyro , with heart on fire For Madeline ...
Page 370
... heart , her heart was voluble , Paining with eloquence her balmy side ; As though a tongueless nightingale should swell Her throat in vain , and die , heart - stifled , in her dell . A casement high and triple - arch'd there was , 370 ...
... heart , her heart was voluble , Paining with eloquence her balmy side ; As though a tongueless nightingale should swell Her throat in vain , and die , heart - stifled , in her dell . A casement high and triple - arch'd there was , 370 ...
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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