The Atlantic Book of British and American Poetry, Volume 2Edith Sitwell Little, Brown, 1958 - 1092 pages The Atlantic Book of British and American Poetry is the Life's work of a master reader and a practicing major poet: Dame Edith Sitwell. In a volume which is a labor of love as well as of scholarship, Dame Edith has brought together within the covers of a single book the best of poetry in English, from the earliest pre-Chaucerian lyrics to the British and American poets of the 1950's. -Book leaf |
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Page 425
... Arms , and longing wait The Signal to ascend , sit lingring here Heav'ns fugitives , and for thir dwelling place Accept this dark opprobrious Den of shame , The Prison of his Tyranny who Reigns By our delay ? no , let us rather choose Arm ...
... Arms , and longing wait The Signal to ascend , sit lingring here Heav'ns fugitives , and for thir dwelling place Accept this dark opprobrious Den of shame , The Prison of his Tyranny who Reigns By our delay ? no , let us rather choose Arm ...
Page 514
... Arms , to Arms ! the fierce Virago cries , And swift as Lightning to the Combat flies . All side in Parties , and begin th ' Attack ; Fans clap , Silks rustle , and tough Whalebones crack ; Heroes ' and Heroines ' Shouts confus'dly rise ...
... Arms , to Arms ! the fierce Virago cries , And swift as Lightning to the Combat flies . All side in Parties , and begin th ' Attack ; Fans clap , Silks rustle , and tough Whalebones crack ; Heroes ' and Heroines ' Shouts confus'dly rise ...
Page 624
... arms , Alone and palely loitering ; The sedge is wither'd from the lake , And no birds sing . O , what can ail thee , knight - at - arms , So haggard and so woe - begone ? The squirrel's granary is full , And the harvest's done . I see ...
... arms , Alone and palely loitering ; The sedge is wither'd from the lake , And no birds sing . O , what can ail thee , knight - at - arms , So haggard and so woe - begone ? The squirrel's granary is full , And the harvest's done . I see ...
Contents
Introduction | 3 |
SUNSET ON CALVARY | 17 |
Geoffrey Chaucer 1340?1400 | 30 |
Copyright | |
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