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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... Heaven's gate sings ' ) with his That from Heaven , or near it , Pourest thy full heart . . . . The numerous comparisons in the poem , which have been treated like realistic equations , are in fact so much talk , the gestures of a mind ...
... Heaven's gate sings ' ) with his That from Heaven , or near it , Pourest thy full heart . . . . The numerous comparisons in the poem , which have been treated like realistic equations , are in fact so much talk , the gestures of a mind ...
Page 336
... Heaven's light forever shines , Earth's shadows fly ; Life , like a dome of many - coloured glass , Stains the white radiance of Eternity , Until Death tramples it to fragments . — Die , If thou wouldst be with that which thou dost seek ...
... Heaven's light forever shines , Earth's shadows fly ; Life , like a dome of many - coloured glass , Stains the white radiance of Eternity , Until Death tramples it to fragments . — Die , If thou wouldst be with that which thou dost seek ...
Page 345
... Heaven , the all - beholding Sun , Has it not seen ? The Sea , in storm or calm , Heaven's ever - changing Shadow , spread below , Have its deaf waves not heard my agony ? Ah me ! alas , pain , pain ever , for ever ! The crawling ...
... Heaven , the all - beholding Sun , Has it not seen ? The Sea , in storm or calm , Heaven's ever - changing Shadow , spread below , Have its deaf waves not heard my agony ? Ah me ! alas , pain , pain ever , for ever ! The crawling ...
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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