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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Edith Sitwell. UPON A WASP CHILLED WITH COLD The Bear that breaths the Northern blast Did numb , Torpedo - like , a ... breath , she out extends Unto the sun , in greate desire To warm her digits at that fire : Doth hold her Temples in ...
Edith Sitwell. UPON A WASP CHILLED WITH COLD The Bear that breaths the Northern blast Did numb , Torpedo - like , a ... breath , she out extends Unto the sun , in greate desire To warm her digits at that fire : Doth hold her Temples in ...
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... breath and bread , " ending with the ship poised on the top of the wave . This last effect is caused by the assonances of " breath " and " bread . " The sound of " breath " is slightly longer , has slightly more of a swell beneath the ...
... breath and bread , " ending with the ship poised on the top of the wave . This last effect is caused by the assonances of " breath " and " bread . " The sound of " breath " is slightly longer , has slightly more of a swell beneath the ...
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... breath : The Centaurs as an army on the grass , Lie down for the feast , and are men above the trestles Lifting the wine bowl To a tune of conches : Pirithous , beside her , never looks at else But dwells on her lips , or is lost among ...
... breath : The Centaurs as an army on the grass , Lie down for the feast , and are men above the trestles Lifting the wine bowl To a tune of conches : Pirithous , beside her , never looks at else But dwells on her lips , or is lost among ...
Contents
Introduction | 3 |
SUNSET ON CALVARY | 17 |
Geoffrey Chaucer 1340?1400 | 30 |
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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