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 157
... youth you have achieved ; Nor are your foil'd contemporaries griev'd ; So much the sweetness of your manners move , We cannot envy you , because we love . Fabius might joy in Scipio , when he saw A beardless consul made against the law ...
... youth you have achieved ; Nor are your foil'd contemporaries griev'd ; So much the sweetness of your manners move , We cannot envy you , because we love . Fabius might joy in Scipio , when he saw A beardless consul made against the law ...
Page 290
... YOUTH AND AGE VERSE , a breeze mid blossoms straying , Where Hope clung feeding , like a bee- Both were mine ! Life went a - maying With Nature , Hope , and Poesy , When I was young ! When I was young ? -Ah , woful When ! Ah ! for the ...
... YOUTH AND AGE VERSE , a breeze mid blossoms straying , Where Hope clung feeding , like a bee- Both were mine ! Life went a - maying With Nature , Hope , and Poesy , When I was young ! When I was young ? -Ah , woful When ! Ah ! for the ...
Page 291
... Youth's no longer here ! O Youth ! for years so many and sweet , ' Tis known that Thou and I were one , I'll think it but a fond conceit- It cannot be that Thou art gone ! Thy vesper - bell hath not yet toll'd : - And thou wert aye a ...
... Youth's no longer here ! O Youth ! for years so many and sweet , ' Tis known that Thou and I were one , I'll think it but a fond conceit- It cannot be that Thou art gone ! Thy vesper - bell hath not yet toll'd : - And thou wert aye a ...
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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