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 290
... Hope clung feeding , like a bee- Both were mine ! Life went a - maying With Nature , Hope , and Poesy , When I was young ! When I was young ? -Ah , woful When ! Ah ! for the change ' twixt Now and Then ! This breathing house not built ...
... Hope clung feeding , like a bee- Both were mine ! Life went a - maying With Nature , Hope , and Poesy , When I was young ! When I was young ? -Ah , woful When ! Ah ! for the change ' twixt Now and Then ! This breathing house not built ...
Page 292
... HOPE ALL Nature seems at work . Slugs leave their lair- The bees are stirring - birds are on the wing- And Winter ... Hope draws nectar in a sieve , And Hope without an object cannot live . " N.B. " for " in the sense of " instead of ...
... HOPE ALL Nature seems at work . Slugs leave their lair- The bees are stirring - birds are on the wing- And Winter ... Hope draws nectar in a sieve , And Hope without an object cannot live . " N.B. " for " in the sense of " instead of ...
Page 474
... hope . Thou waitest for the spark from heaven ! and we , Vague half - believers of our casual creeds , Who never deeply felt , nor clearly will'd , Whose insight never has borne fruit in deeds , Whose weak resolves never have been ...
... hope . Thou waitest for the spark from heaven ! and we , Vague half - believers of our casual creeds , Who never deeply felt , nor clearly will'd , Whose insight never has borne fruit in deeds , Whose weak resolves never have been ...
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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