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 77
... SLEEP How many thousand of my poorest subjects Are at this hour asleep ! O sleep ! O gentle sleep ! Nature's soft nurse , how have I frighted thee , That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down And steep my senses in forgetfulness ? Why ...
... SLEEP How many thousand of my poorest subjects Are at this hour asleep ! O sleep ! O gentle sleep ! Nature's soft nurse , how have I frighted thee , That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down And steep my senses in forgetfulness ? Why ...
Page 83
... sleep ; No more ; and , by a sleep , to say we end The heart - ache and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to , ' tis a consummation Devoutly to be wish'd . To die , to sleep ; To sleep : perchance to dream : ay , there's ...
... sleep ; No more ; and , by a sleep , to say we end The heart - ache and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to , ' tis a consummation Devoutly to be wish'd . To die , to sleep ; To sleep : perchance to dream : ay , there's ...
Page 88
... SLEEP ' Macbeth . I have done the deed . Didst thou not hear a noise ? Lady Macbeth . I heard the owl scream and the ... sleep , and one cried ' Murder ! ' That they did wake each other : I stood and heard them ; But they did say their ...
... SLEEP ' Macbeth . I have done the deed . Didst thou not hear a noise ? Lady Macbeth . I heard the owl scream and the ... sleep , and one cried ' Murder ! ' That they did wake each other : I stood and heard them ; But they did say their ...
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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