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 186
... BEAUTY IS BUT A PAINTED HELL Beauty is but a painted hell : Aye me , aye me , Shee wounds them that admire it , Shee kils them that desire it . Give her pride but fuell , No fire is more cruell . Pittie from ev'ry heart is fled : Aye me ...
... BEAUTY IS BUT A PAINTED HELL Beauty is but a painted hell : Aye me , aye me , Shee wounds them that admire it , Shee kils them that desire it . Give her pride but fuell , No fire is more cruell . Pittie from ev'ry heart is fled : Aye me ...
Page 407
... beauty has grown from the poem , or it does not exist . ) In Sabrina Fair as in Nymphs and Shepherds , part of the waterlike beauty and inspiration of the sound is gained by the pattern used throughout the first verse . The effect is ...
... beauty has grown from the poem , or it does not exist . ) In Sabrina Fair as in Nymphs and Shepherds , part of the waterlike beauty and inspiration of the sound is gained by the pattern used throughout the first verse . The effect is ...
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... Beauty cleere and fair 348 Beauty is but a painted hell 186 Because I am mad about women 800 Behold her , single in the field 561 Beneath a Myrtle shade Beneath these fruit - tree boughs that shed 479 563 Between ( Bytuene ) Mershe and ...
... Beauty cleere and fair 348 Beauty is but a painted hell 186 Because I am mad about women 800 Behold her , single in the field 561 Beneath a Myrtle shade Beneath these fruit - tree boughs that shed 479 563 Between ( Bytuene ) Mershe and ...
Contents
Introduction | 3 |
SUNSET ON CALVARY | 17 |
Geoffrey Chaucer 1340?1400 | 30 |
Copyright | |
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