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 261
... Spirit that plagued us so ; Nine fathom deep he had followed us planet , neither From the land of mist and snow . departed souls nor angels ; concerning whom the learned Jew , Josephus , and the Platonic Constantinopolitan , Michael ...
... Spirit that plagued us so ; Nine fathom deep he had followed us planet , neither From the land of mist and snow . departed souls nor angels ; concerning whom the learned Jew , Josephus , and the Platonic Constantinopolitan , Michael ...
Page 335
... spirit's self has ceased to burn , With sparkless ashes load an unlamented urn . He lives , he wakes - ' tis Death is dead , not he ; Mourn not for Adonais . - Thou young Dawn , Turn all thy dew to splendour , for from thee The spirit ...
... spirit's self has ceased to burn , With sparkless ashes load an unlamented urn . He lives , he wakes - ' tis Death is dead , not he ; Mourn not for Adonais . - Thou young Dawn , Turn all thy dew to splendour , for from thee The spirit ...
Page 341
... Spirit fierce , My spirit ! Be thou me , impetuous one ! Drive my dead thoughts over the universe Like withered leaves to quicken a new birth ! And , by the incantation of this verse , Scatter , as from an unextinguished hearth Ashes ...
... Spirit fierce , My spirit ! Be thou me , impetuous one ! Drive my dead thoughts over the universe Like withered leaves to quicken a new birth ! And , by the incantation of this verse , Scatter , as from an unextinguished hearth Ashes ...
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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