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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... Deep , Thy Silver Horns e're Cinthia's peep ; And thou from thine own liquid Bed New Phoebus heav'st thy pleasant Head . Who shall a Name for thee create , Deep Riddle of Mysterious State ? Bold Nature , that gives common Birth To all ...
... Deep , Thy Silver Horns e're Cinthia's peep ; And thou from thine own liquid Bed New Phoebus heav'st thy pleasant Head . Who shall a Name for thee create , Deep Riddle of Mysterious State ? Bold Nature , that gives common Birth To all ...
Page 411
... deep , And bid the weltring waves their oozy channel keep . Ring out ye Crystall sphears , Once bless our human ears , ( If ye have power to touch our senses so ) And let your silver chime Move in melodious time ; And let the Base of ...
... deep , And bid the weltring waves their oozy channel keep . Ring out ye Crystall sphears , Once bless our human ears , ( If ye have power to touch our senses so ) And let your silver chime Move in melodious time ; And let the Base of ...
Page 428
... deep ; Cocytus , nam'd of lamentation loud Heard on the ruful stream ; fierce Phlegeton Whose waves of torrent fire inflame with rage . Farr off from these a slow and silent stream , Lethe the River of Oblivion roules Her watrie ...
... deep ; Cocytus , nam'd of lamentation loud Heard on the ruful stream ; fierce Phlegeton Whose waves of torrent fire inflame with rage . Farr off from these a slow and silent stream , Lethe the River of Oblivion roules Her watrie ...
Contents
Introduction | 3 |
SUNSET ON CALVARY | 17 |
Geoffrey Chaucer 1340?1400 | 30 |
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