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 239
... hast done , thou hast not done , For , I have more . Wilt thou forgive that sinne which I have wonne Others to sinne ? and , made my sinne their doore ? Wilt thou forgive that sinne which I did shunne A yeare , or two : but wallowed in ...
... hast done , thou hast not done , For , I have more . Wilt thou forgive that sinne which I have wonne Others to sinne ? and , made my sinne their doore ? Wilt thou forgive that sinne which I did shunne A yeare , or two : but wallowed in ...
Page 370
... hast a garden for us , where to bide . Who would be more , Swelling through store , Forfeit their Paradise by their ... hast other vessels full of bloud , A part whereof my Saviour empti'd hath , Ev'n unto death : since he di'd for my ...
... hast a garden for us , where to bide . Who would be more , Swelling through store , Forfeit their Paradise by their ... hast other vessels full of bloud , A part whereof my Saviour empti'd hath , Ev'n unto death : since he di'd for my ...
Page 393
... hast been , Tell him , Thyrsis , what th'hast seen . TITYRUS . Gloomy night embrac't the Place Where The Noble Infant lay . The BABE look't up and shew'd his Face ; In spite of Darkness , it was DAY . It was THY day , SWEET ! and did ...
... hast been , Tell him , Thyrsis , what th'hast seen . TITYRUS . Gloomy night embrac't the Place Where The Noble Infant lay . The BABE look't up and shew'd his Face ; In spite of Darkness , it was DAY . It was THY day , SWEET ! and did ...
Contents
Introduction | 3 |
SUNSET ON CALVARY | 17 |
Geoffrey Chaucer 1340?1400 | 30 |
Copyright | |
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