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 146
... rest . An hollow crystal pyramid he takes , In firmamental waters dipt above ; Of it a broad extinguisher he makes And hoods the flames that to their quarry strove . ( Stanzas 278-81 . ) THE FALSE ACHITOPHELI Of these the false ...
... rest . An hollow crystal pyramid he takes , In firmamental waters dipt above ; Of it a broad extinguisher he makes And hoods the flames that to their quarry strove . ( Stanzas 278-81 . ) THE FALSE ACHITOPHELI Of these the false ...
Page 403
... rest from weariness ? All things have rest : why should we toil alone , We only toil , who are the first of things , And make perpetual moan , Still from one sorrow to another thrown : Nor ever fold our wings , And cease from wanderings ...
... rest from weariness ? All things have rest : why should we toil alone , We only toil , who are the first of things , And make perpetual moan , Still from one sorrow to another thrown : Nor ever fold our wings , And cease from wanderings ...
Page 404
... rest , and ripen toward the grave In silence ; ripen , fall and cease : Give us long rest or death , dark death , or dreamful ease . How sweet it were , hearing the downward stream , With half - shut eyes ever to seem Falling asleep in ...
... rest , and ripen toward the grave In silence ; ripen , fall and cease : Give us long rest or death , dark death , or dreamful ease . How sweet it were , hearing the downward stream , With half - shut eyes ever to seem Falling asleep in ...
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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