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 254
... dead my Lord . Dead ? MONTICELSO . Blessed Lady ; thou art now above thy woes Wilt please your Lordships to with - draw a little ? GIOVANNI . What do the dead do , uncle ? do they eate , Heare musicke , goe a - hunting , and bee merrie ...
... dead my Lord . Dead ? MONTICELSO . Blessed Lady ; thou art now above thy woes Wilt please your Lordships to with - draw a little ? GIOVANNI . What do the dead do , uncle ? do they eate , Heare musicke , goe a - hunting , and bee merrie ...
Page 587
... dead . But the curse liveth for him in the eye of the dead men . In his loneli- ness and fixed- ness he yearn- eth towards the journeying Moon , and the stars that still sojourn , yet still move on- ward ; and every where the blue sky I ...
... dead . But the curse liveth for him in the eye of the dead men . In his loneli- ness and fixed- ness he yearn- eth towards the journeying Moon , and the stars that still sojourn , yet still move on- ward ; and every where the blue sky I ...
Page 676
... DEAD , LONG DEAD Dead , long dead , Long dead ! And my heart is a handful of dust , And the wheels go over my head , And my bones are shaken with pain , For into a shallow grave they are thrust , Only a yard beneath the street , And the ...
... DEAD , LONG DEAD Dead , long dead , Long dead ! And my heart is a handful of dust , And the wheels go over my head , And my bones are shaken with pain , For into a shallow grave they are thrust , Only a yard beneath the street , And the ...
Contents
Introduction | 3 |
SUNSET ON CALVARY | 17 |
Geoffrey Chaucer 1340?1400 | 30 |
Copyright | |
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