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 326
... round which death laughed ' , shapes ' split , jammed in the hard black deep ' , ' the jaggèd alligator ' , and certain ' monarch beasts ' which tenanted the primeval world till the blue globe Wrapped deluge round it like a cloak , and ...
... round which death laughed ' , shapes ' split , jammed in the hard black deep ' , ' the jaggèd alligator ' , and certain ' monarch beasts ' which tenanted the primeval world till the blue globe Wrapped deluge round it like a cloak , and ...
Page 402
... round the coast the languid air did swoon , Breathing like one that hath a weary dream . Full - faced above the valley stood the moon ; And like a downward smoke , the slender stream Along the cliff to fall and pause and fall did seem ...
... round the coast the languid air did swoon , Breathing like one that hath a weary dream . Full - faced above the valley stood the moon ; And like a downward smoke , the slender stream Along the cliff to fall and pause and fall did seem ...
Page 416
... ROUND TABLE is dissolved Which was an image of the mighty world ; And I , the last , go forth companionless , And the days darken round me , and the years , Among new men , strange faces , other minds . ' And slowly answered Arthur from ...
... ROUND TABLE is dissolved Which was an image of the mighty world ; And I , the last , go forth companionless , And the days darken round me , and the years , Among new men , strange faces , other minds . ' And slowly answered Arthur from ...
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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