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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... lips ; But my breath smells earthy strong ; If you have one kiss of my clay - cold lips , Your time will not be long . " " Tis down in yonder garden green , Love , where we used to walk , The finest flower that e'er was seen Is withered ...
... lips ; But my breath smells earthy strong ; If you have one kiss of my clay - cold lips , Your time will not be long . " " Tis down in yonder garden green , Love , where we used to walk , The finest flower that e'er was seen Is withered ...
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... lips on thine Brand them with immortality ; but me - Men shall not see bright fire nor hear the sea , Nor mix their ... lips that quiver and fold up wings that ache ; When nightingales are louder for love's sake , And leaves tremble like ...
... lips on thine Brand them with immortality ; but me - Men shall not see bright fire nor hear the sea , Nor mix their ... lips that quiver and fold up wings that ache ; When nightingales are louder for love's sake , And leaves tremble like ...
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... lips , Disdainful , cruel , as a cup of poison To taint the eyes and kill the souls of men Caught in the fronds of her , her saffron locks . She marries Pirithous , King of the Lapitha : The gods are invited , all the gods but Mars ...
... lips , Disdainful , cruel , as a cup of poison To taint the eyes and kill the souls of men Caught in the fronds of her , her saffron locks . She marries Pirithous , King of the Lapitha : The gods are invited , all the gods but Mars ...
Contents
Introduction | 3 |
SUNSET ON CALVARY | 17 |
Geoffrey Chaucer 1340?1400 | 30 |
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