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 92
... live , And pray , and sing , and tell old tales , and laugh At gilded butterflies , and hear poor rogues Talk of ... lives ; She's dead as earth . Lend me a looking - glass ; If that her breath will mist or stain the stone , Why , then ...
... live , And pray , and sing , and tell old tales , and laugh At gilded butterflies , and hear poor rogues Talk of ... lives ; She's dead as earth . Lend me a looking - glass ; If that her breath will mist or stain the stone , Why , then ...
Page 125
... live . SONG FROM ARCADES NYMPHS and shepherds dance no more By sandy Ladon's lillied banks . On old Lyc¿us or Cyllene hoar , Trip no more in twilight ranks , Though Erymanth your loss deplore , A better soil shall give ye thanks . From ...
... live . SONG FROM ARCADES NYMPHS and shepherds dance no more By sandy Ladon's lillied banks . On old Lyc¿us or Cyllene hoar , Trip no more in twilight ranks , Though Erymanth your loss deplore , A better soil shall give ye thanks . From ...
Page 210
... live the king , And Gilpin long live he ; And , when he next doth ride abroad , May I be there to see ! ON THE RECEIPT OF MY MOTHER'S PICTURE OH that those lips had language ! Life has pass'd With me but roughly since I heard thee last ...
... live the king , And Gilpin long live he ; And , when he next doth ride abroad , May I be there to see ! ON THE RECEIPT OF MY MOTHER'S PICTURE OH that those lips had language ! Life has pass'd With me but roughly since I heard thee last ...
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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