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 263
... stars were dim , and thick the night , The steersman's face by his lamp gleamed white ; From the sails the dew did drip- Till clomb above the eastern bar The hornéd Moon , with one bright star Within the nether tip . One after one , by ...
... stars were dim , and thick the night , The steersman's face by his lamp gleamed white ; From the sails the dew did drip- Till clomb above the eastern bar The hornéd Moon , with one bright star Within the nether tip . One after one , by ...
Page 383
... stars Lifted his curved lids , and kept them wide Until it ceas'd ; and still he kept them wide : And still they were the same bright , patient stars . Then with a slow incline of his broad breast , Like to a diver in the pearly seas ...
... stars Lifted his curved lids , and kept them wide Until it ceas'd ; and still he kept them wide : And still they were the same bright , patient stars . Then with a slow incline of his broad breast , Like to a diver in the pearly seas ...
Page 462
... stars uncrowns his majesty , Planting his steadfast footsteps in the sea , Making the heaven of heavens his dwelling - place , Spares but the cloudy border of his base To the foil'd searching of mortality : And thou , who didst the stars ...
... stars uncrowns his majesty , Planting his steadfast footsteps in the sea , Making the heaven of heavens his dwelling - place , Spares but the cloudy border of his base To the foil'd searching of mortality : And thou , who didst the stars ...
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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