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 345
... FACE . Like a wench with child , sir , That were , but now , discover'd to her master . MAMMON . Excellent wittie Lungs ! My onely care is , Where to get stuffe , inough now , to project on , This towne will not halfe serve me . FACE ...
... FACE . Like a wench with child , sir , That were , but now , discover'd to her master . MAMMON . Excellent wittie Lungs ! My onely care is , Where to get stuffe , inough now , to project on , This towne will not halfe serve me . FACE ...
Page 372
... face , Canst thou be any where So well as there ? Yet , if thou wilt from thence depart , Take a bad lodging in my heart ; For thou canst make a debter , And make it better . First with thy fire - work burn to dust Folly , and worse ...
... face , Canst thou be any where So well as there ? Yet , if thou wilt from thence depart , Take a bad lodging in my heart ; For thou canst make a debter , And make it better . First with thy fire - work burn to dust Folly , and worse ...
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... face , Her round , bright face , bright as frost . Her round , fine - fashioned head , with two dead ears ; And stripes in the brilliant frost of her face , sharp , fine dark rays . Dark , keen , fine rays in the brilliant frost of her ...
... face , Her round , bright face , bright as frost . Her round , fine - fashioned head , with two dead ears ; And stripes in the brilliant frost of her face , sharp , fine dark rays . Dark , keen , fine rays in the brilliant frost of her ...
Contents
Introduction | 3 |
SUNSET ON CALVARY | 17 |
Geoffrey Chaucer 1340?1400 | 30 |
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