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 160
... young : The jolly god in triumph comes ; Sound the trumpets ; beat the drums : Flush'd with a purple grace He shows his honest face : Now give the hautboys breath . He comes ! he comes ! Bacchus , ever fair and young , Drinking joys did ...
... young : The jolly god in triumph comes ; Sound the trumpets ; beat the drums : Flush'd with a purple grace He shows his honest face : Now give the hautboys breath . He comes ! he comes ! Bacchus , ever fair and young , Drinking joys did ...
Page 183
... young , Swift as a stag , and as a lion strong , Him no fell savage on the plain withstood , None ' scap'd him , bosom'd in the gloomy wood ; His eye how piercing , and his scent how true , To wind the vapour in the tainted dew . I ...
... young , Swift as a stag , and as a lion strong , Him no fell savage on the plain withstood , None ' scap'd him , bosom'd in the gloomy wood ; His eye how piercing , and his scent how true , To wind the vapour in the tainted dew . I ...
Page 290
... young ! When I was young ? -Ah , woful When ! Ah ! for the change ' twixt Now and Then ! This breathing house not built with hands , This body that does me grievous wrong , O'er aery cliffs and glittering sands , How lightly then it ...
... young ! When I was young ? -Ah , woful When ! Ah ! for the change ' twixt Now and Then ! This breathing house not built with hands , This body that does me grievous wrong , O'er aery cliffs and glittering sands , How lightly then it ...
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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