The London Book of English VerseEyre & Spottiswoode, 1949 - 874 pages |
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Page 63
... earth was awakened , hell loosed with her crews ; And the stars of night beat with emotion , and tingled and shot ... earth sank to rest . Anon at the dawn , all that trouble had withered from earth- Not so much , but I saw it die out in ...
... earth was awakened , hell loosed with her crews ; And the stars of night beat with emotion , and tingled and shot ... earth sank to rest . Anon at the dawn , all that trouble had withered from earth- Not so much , but I saw it die out in ...
Page 373
... earth - brown , earth - golden from the burning bowels of the earth , On the day of Sicilian July , with Etna smoking . The voice of my education said to me He must be killed , For in Sicily the black , black snakes are innocent , the ...
... earth - brown , earth - golden from the burning bowels of the earth , On the day of Sicilian July , with Etna smoking . The voice of my education said to me He must be killed , For in Sicily the black , black snakes are innocent , the ...
Page 546
... earth , air , water , plants , and other men . We finish thus ; and all our wretched race Shall finish with its cycle , and give place To other beings , with their own time - doom : Infinite æons ere our kind began ; Infinite æons after ...
... earth , air , water , plants , and other men . We finish thus ; and all our wretched race Shall finish with its cycle , and give place To other beings , with their own time - doom : Infinite æons ere our kind began ; Infinite æons after ...
Contents
Geoffrey Chaucer The Prioresss Tale | 12 |
Christopher Marlowe From Hero and Leander | 13 |
William Shakespeare The Courser and the Jennet from | 14 |
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