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 50
... thou not enuy My loue with me to spy : For thou likewise didst loue , though now vnthought , And for a fleece of woll , which priuily The Latmian shephard once vnto thee brought , His pleasures with thee wrought . Therefore to vs be ...
... thou not enuy My loue with me to spy : For thou likewise didst loue , though now vnthought , And for a fleece of woll , which priuily The Latmian shephard once vnto thee brought , His pleasures with thee wrought . Therefore to vs be ...
Page 148
... thou Dull ; Drink , swear , and roar , forbear no lewd delight Fit for thy bulk , do anything but write . Thou art of lasting make , like thoughtless men , A strong nativity - but for the pen ; Eat opium , mingle arsenic in thy drink ...
... thou Dull ; Drink , swear , and roar , forbear no lewd delight Fit for thy bulk , do anything but write . Thou art of lasting make , like thoughtless men , A strong nativity - but for the pen ; Eat opium , mingle arsenic in thy drink ...
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... thou wert wander'd from the studious walls To learn strange arts , and join a gipsy - tribe ; And thou from earth art gone Long since , and in some quiet churchyard laid- Some country - nook , where o'er thy unknown grave Tall grasses ...
... thou wert wander'd from the studious walls To learn strange arts , and join a gipsy - tribe ; And thou from earth art gone Long since , and in some quiet churchyard laid- Some country - nook , where o'er thy unknown grave Tall grasses ...
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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