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 174
... move easiest who have learn'd to dance . ' Tis not enough no harshness gives offence , The sound must seem an echo to the sense : Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows , And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when ...
... move easiest who have learn'd to dance . ' Tis not enough no harshness gives offence , The sound must seem an echo to the sense : Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows , And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when ...
Page 226
... move the clouds ! Like a great lonely ram he stalks across his moorlands ; and to some souls he has been like the ... moving ; though our hearts , indeed , can seldom dance to it . But Landor has said it all better , in words not the ...
... move the clouds ! Like a great lonely ram he stalks across his moorlands ; and to some souls he has been like the ... moving ; though our hearts , indeed , can seldom dance to it . But Landor has said it all better , in words not the ...
Page 265
... move onward ; and every where the blue sky belongs to them , and is their appointed An orphan's curse would drag to ... moving Moon went up the sky , And nowhere did abide : Softly she was going up , And a star or two beside- Her beams ...
... move onward ; and every where the blue sky belongs to them , and is their appointed An orphan's curse would drag to ... moving Moon went up the sky , And nowhere did abide : Softly she was going up , And a star or two beside- Her beams ...
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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