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 249
... silent owls , That they might answer him ; and they would shout Across the watery vale , and shout again ... silence came and baffled his best skill , Then sometimes , in that silence while he hung Listening , a gentle shock of mild ...
... silent owls , That they might answer him ; and they would shout Across the watery vale , and shout again ... silence came and baffled his best skill , Then sometimes , in that silence while he hung Listening , a gentle shock of mild ...
Page 331
... silent home ; Pour bitter tears on its desolated hearth ; Watch the dim shades as like ghosts they go and come , And complicate strange webs of melancholy mirth . The leaves of wasted autumn woods shall float around thine head : The ...
... silent home ; Pour bitter tears on its desolated hearth ; Watch the dim shades as like ghosts they go and come , And complicate strange webs of melancholy mirth . The leaves of wasted autumn woods shall float around thine head : The ...
Page 359
... silent be ; and not a soul to tell Why thou art desolate , can e'er return . I O Attic shape ! Fair attitude ! with brede 1 Of marble men and maidens overwrought , With forest branches and the trodden weed ; Thou , silent form , dost ...
... silent be ; and not a soul to tell Why thou art desolate , can e'er return . I O Attic shape ! Fair attitude ! with brede 1 Of marble men and maidens overwrought , With forest branches and the trodden weed ; Thou , silent form , dost ...
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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