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 138
... hill , expect Their motion , at whose front a flaming sword , In signal of remove , waves fiercely round . We may no longer stay : go , waken Eve ; Her also I with gentle dreams have calm'd Portending good , and all her spirits compos'd ...
... hill , expect Their motion , at whose front a flaming sword , In signal of remove , waves fiercely round . We may no longer stay : go , waken Eve ; Her also I with gentle dreams have calm'd Portending good , and all her spirits compos'd ...
Page 356
... hill's side . ' I saw pale kings and princes too , Pale warriors , death - pale were they all ; Who cried- " La belle Dame sans Merci Hath thee in thrall ! " ' I saw their starved lips in the gloam With horrid warning gapèd wide , And I ...
... hill's side . ' I saw pale kings and princes too , Pale warriors , death - pale were they all ; Who cried- " La belle Dame sans Merci Hath thee in thrall ! " ' I saw their starved lips in the gloam With horrid warning gapèd wide , And I ...
Page 462
... hills , At the white , sleeping town ; At the church on the hill - side- And then come back down . Singing : ' There dwells a loved one , But cruel is she ! She left lonely for ever The kings of the sea . ' SHAKESPEARE OTHERS abide our ...
... hills , At the white , sleeping town ; At the church on the hill - side- And then come back down . Singing : ' There dwells a loved one , But cruel is she ! She left lonely for ever The kings of the sea . ' SHAKESPEARE OTHERS abide our ...
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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