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 120
... eyes these beauties see not , Nor sence that grace descryes ; Yet eyes deprived be not From sight of her faire eyes , Which , as of inward glorie They are the outward seale ; So may they live still sorie , Which die not in that weale ...
... eyes these beauties see not , Nor sence that grace descryes ; Yet eyes deprived be not From sight of her faire eyes , Which , as of inward glorie They are the outward seale ; So may they live still sorie , Which die not in that weale ...
Page 211
... eyes , More Geese than Swannes now live , more fooles than wise . WEEPE O MINE EYES Weepe O mine eyes , Weepe O mine eyes , and cease not ; ( Alas ) these your spring - tides , Me - thinkes increase not . O when begin you , To swell so ...
... eyes , More Geese than Swannes now live , more fooles than wise . WEEPE O MINE EYES Weepe O mine eyes , Weepe O mine eyes , and cease not ; ( Alas ) these your spring - tides , Me - thinkes increase not . O when begin you , To swell so ...
Page 295
... eyes ? LEAR . Oh ho , are you there with me ? No eies in your head , nor no mony in your purse ? Your eyes are in a heavy case , your purse in a light , yet you see how this world goes . GLOUCESTER . I see it feelingly . LEAR . What ...
... eyes ? LEAR . Oh ho , are you there with me ? No eies in your head , nor no mony in your purse ? Your eyes are in a heavy case , your purse in a light , yet you see how this world goes . GLOUCESTER . I see it feelingly . LEAR . What ...
Contents
Introduction | 3 |
SUNSET ON CALVARY | 17 |
Geoffrey Chaucer 1340?1400 | 30 |
Copyright | |
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