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 145
... seen some fearful hare maintain A course , till tir'd before the dog she lay , Who , stretch'd behind her , pants upon the plain , Past power to kill as she to get away . With his loll'd tongue he faintly licks his prey , His warm ...
... seen some fearful hare maintain A course , till tir'd before the dog she lay , Who , stretch'd behind her , pants upon the plain , Past power to kill as she to get away . With his loll'd tongue he faintly licks his prey , His warm ...
Page 425
... seen these as those stresses of circumstance by which men are moulded . Now , however , there is more insistent need for a hereafter , not , indeed , as a compensation , but as opportunity to realize the perfection adumbrated by earth's ...
... seen these as those stresses of circumstance by which men are moulded . Now , however , there is more insistent need for a hereafter , not , indeed , as a compensation , but as opportunity to realize the perfection adumbrated by earth's ...
Page 452
... Seen by Moses when he climbed the mountain ? Moses , Aaron , Nadab and Abihu Climbed and saw the very God , the Highest , Stand upon the paved work of a sapphire . Like the bodied heaven in his clearness Shone the stone , the sapphire ...
... Seen by Moses when he climbed the mountain ? Moses , Aaron , Nadab and Abihu Climbed and saw the very God , the Highest , Stand upon the paved work of a sapphire . Like the bodied heaven in his clearness Shone the stone , the sapphire ...
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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