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 85
... LADY Who shall have my faire lady ? Who shall have my faire lady ? Who but I , who but I , who but I ? Under the levis grene ! The fairest man That best love can , Dandirly , dandirly , Dandirly , dan , Under the levis grene . WESTRON ...
... LADY Who shall have my faire lady ? Who shall have my faire lady ? Who but I , who but I , who but I ? Under the levis grene ! The fairest man That best love can , Dandirly , dandirly , Dandirly , dan , Under the levis grene . WESTRON ...
Page 300
... LADY . To alter favor , ever is to feare : Leave all the rest to me . Only looke up cleare : [ Exeunt . ] ACT II , SCENE 2 LADY . That which hath made them drunk , hath made me bold : What hath quench'd them , hath given me fire ...
... LADY . To alter favor , ever is to feare : Leave all the rest to me . Only looke up cleare : [ Exeunt . ] ACT II , SCENE 2 LADY . That which hath made them drunk , hath made me bold : What hath quench'd them , hath given me fire ...
Page 301
... LADY . Consider it not so deepely . MACBETH . But wherefore could not I pronounce Amen ? I had most need of Blessing , and Amen Stuck in my throat . LADY . These deeds must not be thought After these wayes : so , it will make us mad ...
... LADY . Consider it not so deepely . MACBETH . But wherefore could not I pronounce Amen ? I had most need of Blessing , and Amen Stuck in my throat . LADY . These deeds must not be thought After these wayes : so , it will make us mad ...
Contents
Introduction | 3 |
SUNSET ON CALVARY | 17 |
Geoffrey Chaucer 1340?1400 | 30 |
Copyright | |
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