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 90
... Light thickens , and the crow Makes wing to the rooky wood ; Good things of day begin to droop and drowse , Whiles ... light , and then put out the light : If I quench thee , thou flaming minister , I can again thy former light restore ...
... Light thickens , and the crow Makes wing to the rooky wood ; Good things of day begin to droop and drowse , Whiles ... light , and then put out the light : If I quench thee , thou flaming minister , I can again thy former light restore ...
Page 271
... light . Swiftly , swiftly flew the ship , Yet she sailed softly too : Sweetly , sweetly blew the breeze- On me alone it blew . Oh ! dream of joy ! is this indeed The light - house top I see ? Is this the hill ? is this the kirk ? Is ...
... light . Swiftly , swiftly flew the ship , Yet she sailed softly too : Sweetly , sweetly blew the breeze- On me alone it blew . Oh ! dream of joy ! is this indeed The light - house top I see ? Is this the hill ? is this the kirk ? Is ...
Page 286
... light that lingers in the west : I may not hope from outward forms to win The passion and the life , whose fountains are within . O Lady ! we receive but what we give , And in our life alone does Nature live : Ours is her wedding ...
... light that lingers in the west : I may not hope from outward forms to win The passion and the life , whose fountains are within . O Lady ! we receive but what we give , And in our life alone does Nature live : Ours is her wedding ...
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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