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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... night , ye damsels may be gon , And leaue my loue alone , And leaue likewise your former lay to sing : The woods no more shal answere , nor your echo ring . Now welcome night , thou night so long expected , That long daies labour doest ...
... night , ye damsels may be gon , And leaue my loue alone , And leaue likewise your former lay to sing : The woods no more shal answere , nor your echo ring . Now welcome night , thou night so long expected , That long daies labour doest ...
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... night within nor yet without : Ne let false whispers , breeding hidden feares , Breake gentle sleepe with misconceiued dout . Let no deluding dreames , nor dreadful sights Make sudden sad affrights ; Ne let housefyres , nor lightnings ...
... night within nor yet without : Ne let false whispers , breeding hidden feares , Breake gentle sleepe with misconceiued dout . Let no deluding dreames , nor dreadful sights Make sudden sad affrights ; Ne let housefyres , nor lightnings ...
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... NIGHT ' Lorenzo . The moon shines bright : in such a night as this , When the sweet wind did gently kiss the trees And they did make no noise , in such a night Troilus methinks mounted the Troyan walls , And sigh'd his soul toward the ...
... NIGHT ' Lorenzo . The moon shines bright : in such a night as this , When the sweet wind did gently kiss the trees And they did make no noise , in such a night Troilus methinks mounted the Troyan walls , And sigh'd his soul toward the ...
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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