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 200
... doth chuse a Make , This day's Saint Valentines ; For that good Bishops sake Get up , and let us see , What Beautie it shall bee , That Fortune us assignes . But lo , in happy How'r , The place wherein she lyes , In yonder climbing Tow ...
... doth chuse a Make , This day's Saint Valentines ; For that good Bishops sake Get up , and let us see , What Beautie it shall bee , That Fortune us assignes . But lo , in happy How'r , The place wherein she lyes , In yonder climbing Tow ...
Page 211
... DOTH PASSE A ha ha ha ! this world doth passe , Most merily , most merily Ile bee sworne , For many an honest Indian Asse Goes for a unicorne . Farra diddle diddle dyno , This is idle idle fyno . Tygh hygh , tygh hygh ! O sweet delight ...
... DOTH PASSE A ha ha ha ! this world doth passe , Most merily , most merily Ile bee sworne , For many an honest Indian Asse Goes for a unicorne . Farra diddle diddle dyno , This is idle idle fyno . Tygh hygh , tygh hygh ! O sweet delight ...
Page 333
... doth yeeld thee conies ; and the tops Fertile of WOOD , ASHORE , and SYDNEY'S copp's , To crowne thy open table , doth provide The purpled pheasant , with the speckled side : The painted partrich lyes in every field , And , for thy ...
... doth yeeld thee conies ; and the tops Fertile of WOOD , ASHORE , and SYDNEY'S copp's , To crowne thy open table , doth provide The purpled pheasant , with the speckled side : The painted partrich lyes in every field , And , for thy ...
Contents
Introduction | 3 |
SUNSET ON CALVARY | 17 |
Geoffrey Chaucer 1340?1400 | 30 |
Copyright | |
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