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 175
... soul aspire Above the vulgar flight of low desire ? Ambition first sprung from your blest abodes , The glorious fault of angels and of gods : Thence to their images on earth it flows , And in the breasts of kings and heroes glows . Most ...
... soul aspire Above the vulgar flight of low desire ? Ambition first sprung from your blest abodes , The glorious fault of angels and of gods : Thence to their images on earth it flows , And in the breasts of kings and heroes glows . Most ...
Page 240
... soul who could pass by A sight so touching in its majesty : This City now doth , like a garment , wear The beauty of the morning ; silent , bare , Ships , towers , domes , theatres , and temples lie Open unto the fields , and to the sky ...
... soul who could pass by A sight so touching in its majesty : This City now doth , like a garment , wear The beauty of the morning ; silent , bare , Ships , towers , domes , theatres , and temples lie Open unto the fields , and to the sky ...
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... soul itself must issue forth A light , a glory , a fair luminous cloud Enveloping the Earth- And from the soul itself must there be sent A sweet and potent voice , of its own birth , Of all sweet sounds the life and element ! O pure of ...
... soul itself must issue forth A light , a glory , a fair luminous cloud Enveloping the Earth- And from the soul itself must there be sent A sweet and potent voice , of its own birth , Of all sweet sounds the life and element ! O pure of ...
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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