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 237
... death shall be no more ; death , thou shalt die . GOODFRIDAY , 1613. RIDING WESTWARD Let mans Soule be a Spheare , and then , in this , The intelligence that moves , devotion is , And as the other Spheares , by being growne Subject to ...
... death shall be no more ; death , thou shalt die . GOODFRIDAY , 1613. RIDING WESTWARD Let mans Soule be a Spheare , and then , in this , The intelligence that moves , devotion is , And as the other Spheares , by being growne Subject to ...
Page 264
... death fright you ? DUCHESS . Who would be afraid on't ? Knowing to meete such excellent company In th ' other world . BOSOLA . Yet , me thinkes , The manner of your death should much afflict This cord should terrifie you ! DUCHESS . Not ...
... death fright you ? DUCHESS . Who would be afraid on't ? Knowing to meete such excellent company In th ' other world . BOSOLA . Yet , me thinkes , The manner of your death should much afflict This cord should terrifie you ! DUCHESS . Not ...
Page 282
... death , Have they beene merrie ? Which their Keepers call A lightning before death : Oh how may I Call this a lightning ? O my Love , my Wife , Death that hath suckt the honey of thy breath , Hath had no power yet upon thy Beautie ...
... death , Have they beene merrie ? Which their Keepers call A lightning before death : Oh how may I Call this a lightning ? O my Love , my Wife , Death that hath suckt the honey of thy breath , Hath had no power yet upon thy Beautie ...
Contents
Introduction | 3 |
SUNSET ON CALVARY | 17 |
Geoffrey Chaucer 1340?1400 | 30 |
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