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 625
... dream'd , ah woe betide , The latest dream I ever dream'd On the cold hill side . I saw pale kings , and princes too , Pale warriors , death - pale were they all ; Who cry'd - " La belle Dame sans merci Hath thee in thrall ! " I saw ...
... dream'd , ah woe betide , The latest dream I ever dream'd On the cold hill side . I saw pale kings , and princes too , Pale warriors , death - pale were they all ; Who cry'd - " La belle Dame sans merci Hath thee in thrall ! " I saw ...
Page 642
... dream so pure and deep , At which fair Madeline began to weep , And moan forth witless words with many a sigh ; While still her gaze on Porphyro would keep ; Who knelt , with joined hands and piteous eye , Fearing to move or speak , she ...
... dream so pure and deep , At which fair Madeline began to weep , And moan forth witless words with many a sigh ; While still her gaze on Porphyro would keep ; Who knelt , with joined hands and piteous eye , Fearing to move or speak , she ...
Page 673
... dream ! To dream and dream , like yonder amber light , Which will not leave the myrrh - bush on the height ; To hear each other's whisper'd speech ; Eating the Lotos day by day , To watch the crisping ripples on the beach , And tender ...
... dream ! To dream and dream , like yonder amber light , Which will not leave the myrrh - bush on the height ; To hear each other's whisper'd speech ; Eating the Lotos day by day , To watch the crisping ripples on the beach , And tender ...
Contents
Introduction | 3 |
SUNSET ON CALVARY | 17 |
Geoffrey Chaucer 1340?1400 | 30 |
Copyright | |
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