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 375
... grief : Was ever grief like mine ? Judas , dost thou betray me with a kisse ? Canst thou finde hell about my lips ? and misse Of life , just at the gates of life and blisse ? Was ever grief like mine ? See , they lay hold on me , not ...
... grief : Was ever grief like mine ? Judas , dost thou betray me with a kisse ? Canst thou finde hell about my lips ? and misse Of life , just at the gates of life and blisse ? Was ever grief like mine ? See , they lay hold on me , not ...
Page 376
... grief like mine ? Herod in judgement sits , while I do stand ; Examines me with a censorious hand : I him obey , who all things else command : Was ever grief like mine ? The Jews accuse me with despitefulnesse ; And vying malice with my ...
... grief like mine ? Herod in judgement sits , while I do stand ; Examines me with a censorious hand : I him obey , who all things else command : Was ever grief like mine ? The Jews accuse me with despitefulnesse ; And vying malice with my ...
Page 377
... grief like mine ? They choose a murderer , and all agree In him to do themselves a courtesie : For it was their own case who killed me : Was ever grief like mine ? And a seditious murderer he was : But I the Prince of peace ; peace that ...
... grief like mine ? They choose a murderer , and all agree In him to do themselves a courtesie : For it was their own case who killed me : Was ever grief like mine ? And a seditious murderer he was : But I the Prince of peace ; peace that ...
Contents
Introduction | 3 |
SUNSET ON CALVARY | 17 |
Geoffrey Chaucer 1340?1400 | 30 |
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