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 332
... leaves the well - built nest ; The weak one is singled To endure what it once possessed . O Love ! who bewailest The frailty of all things here , Why choose you the frailest For your cradle , your home , and your bier ? Its passions ...
... leaves the well - built nest ; The weak one is singled To endure what it once possessed . O Love ! who bewailest The frailty of all things here , Why choose you the frailest For your cradle , your home , and your bier ? Its passions ...
Page 341
... leaf , a cloud ! I fall upon the thorns of life ! I bleed ! A heavy weight of hours has chained and bowed One too like thee : tameless , and swift , and proud . V Make me thy lyre , even as the forest is : What if my leaves are falling ...
... leaf , a cloud ! I fall upon the thorns of life ! I bleed ! A heavy weight of hours has chained and bowed One too like thee : tameless , and swift , and proud . V Make me thy lyre , even as the forest is : What if my leaves are falling ...
Page 360
... leaves hast never known , The weariness , the fever , and the fret Here , where men sit and hear each other groan ; Where palsy shakes a few , sad , last gray hairs , Where youth grows pale , and spectre - thin , and dies ; Where but to ...
... leaves hast never known , The weariness , the fever , and the fret Here , where men sit and hear each other groan ; Where palsy shakes a few , sad , last gray hairs , Where youth grows pale , and spectre - thin , and dies ; Where but to ...
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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