The London Book of English VerseEyre & Spottiswoode, 1949 - 874 pages |
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Page 144
... live their lives in love like me , Then bloody swords and armour should not be , No drum nor trumpet peaceful sleeps should move , Unless alarm came from the camp of love : But fools do live , and waste their little light , And seek ...
... live their lives in love like me , Then bloody swords and armour should not be , No drum nor trumpet peaceful sleeps should move , Unless alarm came from the camp of love : But fools do live , and waste their little light , And seek ...
Page 152
... live with me , and be my love . CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE 151 The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd If all the world and love were young , And truth in every Shepherd's tongue , These pretty pleasures might me move , To live with thee , and be ...
... live with me , and be my love . CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE 151 The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd If all the world and love were young , And truth in every Shepherd's tongue , These pretty pleasures might me move , To live with thee , and be ...
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Herbert Read. Live in these conquering leaves ; live all the same ; And walk through all tongues one triumphant flame . Live here , great heart ; and love and die and kill ; And bleed and wound ; and yield and conquer still . Let this ...
Herbert Read. Live in these conquering leaves ; live all the same ; And walk through all tongues one triumphant flame . Live here , great heart ; and love and die and kill ; And bleed and wound ; and yield and conquer still . Let this ...
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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