The London Book of English VerseEyre & Spottiswoode, 1949 - 874 pages |
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Page 79
... face ; Then hey nonny nonny , hey nonny nonny ! Canst drink the waters of the crisped spring ? O sweet content ! Swimm'st thou in wealth , yet sink'st in thine own tears ? O punishment ! Then he that patiently want's burden bears No ...
... face ; Then hey nonny nonny , hey nonny nonny ! Canst drink the waters of the crisped spring ? O sweet content ! Swimm'st thou in wealth , yet sink'st in thine own tears ? O punishment ! Then he that patiently want's burden bears No ...
Page 169
... face the meadows green , Gilding pale streams with heavenly alchymy ; Anon permit the basest clouds to ride With ugly rack on his celestial face , And from the forlorn world his visage hide , Stealing unseen to west with this disgrace ...
... face the meadows green , Gilding pale streams with heavenly alchymy ; Anon permit the basest clouds to ride With ugly rack on his celestial face , And from the forlorn world his visage hide , Stealing unseen to west with this disgrace ...
Page 356
... face of day . The starving wolves along the main sea prowl , And to the moon in icy valleys howl . For many a shining league the level main Here spreads itself into a glassy plain : There solid billows of enormous size , Alps of green ...
... face of day . The starving wolves along the main sea prowl , And to the moon in icy valleys howl . For many a shining league the level main Here spreads itself into a glassy plain : There solid billows of enormous size , Alps of green ...
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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Anon beauty BEN JONSON birds breast breath bright brow clouds dark dead dear death delight doth dream earth eternal ev'ry eyes fair fall fear fire flowers glory golden grace grave green grief hair hand happy hast hath head hear heart heaven Ilion JOHN JOHN DONNE JOHN MILTON king kiss Lady leave light lips live look Lord Lord Randal Love's lovers MICHAEL DRAYTON mind moon morn never night numbers o'er pain PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY pleasure rest ROBERT HERRICK rose round shade shadows shalt shepherd shine sighs sight sing SIR THOMAS WYATT sleep smile soft Song Sonnet sorrow soul spirit spring stars sweet tears tell thee thine things THOMAS THOMAS CAMPION THOMAS LODGE thou art thought tree unto voice waves weep wild WILLIAM BLAKE WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE WILLIAM WORDSWORTH wind wings