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 313
... earth ; of earth we make Lome , and why of that Lome ( whereto he was converted ) might they not stopp a Beere - barrell ? Imperiall Cæsar , dead and turn'd to clay , Might stop a hole to keepe the winde away . Oh , that that earth ...
... earth ; of earth we make Lome , and why of that Lome ( whereto he was converted ) might they not stopp a Beere - barrell ? Imperiall Cæsar , dead and turn'd to clay , Might stop a hole to keepe the winde away . Oh , that that earth ...
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... earth and sea half - held by the night . Press close bare - bosom'd night - press close magnetic nourishing night ... earth ! Earth of the slumbering and liquid trees ! Earth of departed sunset - earth of the mountains misty - topt ...
... earth and sea half - held by the night . Press close bare - bosom'd night - press close magnetic nourishing night ... earth ! Earth of the slumbering and liquid trees ! Earth of departed sunset - earth of the mountains misty - topt ...
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... earth . These are the great quiet lines that disperse in the fading blue of doubtful vines . The earth here and there ripens the violets of storm ; and these sandsmokes that rise over dead river courses , like the skirts of cen- turies ...
... earth . These are the great quiet lines that disperse in the fading blue of doubtful vines . The earth here and there ripens the violets of storm ; and these sandsmokes that rise over dead river courses , like the skirts of cen- turies ...
Contents
Introduction | 3 |
SUNSET ON CALVARY | 17 |
Geoffrey Chaucer 1340?1400 | 30 |
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