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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... dark and deep , Won from the void and formless infinite . Thee I revisit now with bolder wing , Escap't the Stygian Pool , though long detain'd In that obscure sojourn , while in my flight Through utter and through middle darkness borne ...
... dark and deep , Won from the void and formless infinite . Thee I revisit now with bolder wing , Escap't the Stygian Pool , though long detain'd In that obscure sojourn , while in my flight Through utter and through middle darkness borne ...
Page 432
... dark in light expos'd To daily fraud , contempt , abuse and wrong , Within doors , or without , still as a fool , In power of others , never in my own ; Scarce half I seem to live , dead more then half . O dark , dark , dark , amid the ...
... dark in light expos'd To daily fraud , contempt , abuse and wrong , Within doors , or without , still as a fool , In power of others , never in my own ; Scarce half I seem to live , dead more then half . O dark , dark , dark , amid the ...
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... darkness , Pluto's dark - blue daze , black lamps from the halls of Dis , burning dark blue , giving off darkness , blue darkness , as Demeter's pale lamps give off light , lead me then , lead me the way . Reach me a gentian , give me a ...
... darkness , Pluto's dark - blue daze , black lamps from the halls of Dis , burning dark blue , giving off darkness , blue darkness , as Demeter's pale lamps give off light , lead me then , lead me the way . Reach me a gentian , give me a ...
Contents
Introduction | 3 |
SUNSET ON CALVARY | 17 |
Geoffrey Chaucer 1340?1400 | 30 |
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