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 232
... birds are thy Parishioners , Thou marryest every yeare The Lirique Larke , and the grave whispering Dove , The Sparrow that neglects his life for love , The household Bird , with the red stomacher , Thou mak'st the black bird speed as ...
... birds are thy Parishioners , Thou marryest every yeare The Lirique Larke , and the grave whispering Dove , The Sparrow that neglects his life for love , The household Bird , with the red stomacher , Thou mak'st the black bird speed as ...
Page 583
... bird to slay , That made the breeze to blow ! Nor dim nor red , like God's own head , The glorious Sun uprist : Then all averred , I had killed the bird That brought the fog and mist . ' Twas right , said they , such birds to slay ...
... bird to slay , That made the breeze to blow ! Nor dim nor red , like God's own head , The glorious Sun uprist : Then all averred , I had killed the bird That brought the fog and mist . ' Twas right , said they , such birds to slay ...
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... birds Flying from burning countries and brown sand shores , Birds that came like dirty water in waves Flowing above the rocks , flowing over the sky , As if the sky was a current that bore them along , Spreading them as waves spread ...
... birds Flying from burning countries and brown sand shores , Birds that came like dirty water in waves Flowing above the rocks , flowing over the sky , As if the sky was a current that bore them along , Spreading them as waves spread ...
Contents
Introduction | 3 |
SUNSET ON CALVARY | 17 |
Geoffrey Chaucer 1340?1400 | 30 |
Copyright | |
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assonances beauty bel amy birds blessed blood breast breath brest bright Centaurs clouds cold CRAZY JANE dark dead dear death DEFLORES delight DESDEMONA dost doth dream earth Edith Sitwell eyes face fair fall fear fire flame flowers glory gold golden grace grave green grief hair HAMLET hand hath head hear heard heart heaven hell Hippodamia Jennifer gentle King kiss lady land LEAR leaves light lips live look Lord MACBETH moon mordre morning never night Nymph o'er OTHELLO Pirithous poem queen rose round shadow shine sigh sight sing sleep snow soft song soul sound spirit spring stars Stephen Spender strange Sunne sweet tears tell thee thine things thou art thought Timor mortis conturbat tree unto voice W. H. Auden waves weep wind wings words