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 100
... night and alle , Fire , and sleete , and candle lighte , And Christe receive thye saule . When thou from hence away are past , Every night and alle , To Whinny - muir thou comest at last , And Christe receive thye saule . If ever thou ...
... night and alle , Fire , and sleete , and candle lighte , And Christe receive thye saule . When thou from hence away are past , Every night and alle , To Whinny - muir thou comest at last , And Christe receive thye saule . If ever thou ...
Page 550
... Night to perish in a Night When the Soul Slept in Beams of Light . God Appears and God is Light To those poor Souls who dwell in Night , But does a Human Form Display To those who Dwell in Realms of day . THE TYGER Tyger ! Tyger ...
... Night to perish in a Night When the Soul Slept in Beams of Light . God Appears and God is Light To those poor Souls who dwell in Night , But does a Human Form Display To those who Dwell in Realms of day . THE TYGER Tyger ! Tyger ...
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... NIGHT I am he that walks with the tender and growing night , I call to the earth and sea half - held by the night . Press close bare - bosom'd night - press close magnetic nourishing night ! Night of south winds night of the large few ...
... NIGHT I am he that walks with the tender and growing night , I call to the earth and sea half - held by the night . Press close bare - bosom'd night - press close magnetic nourishing night ! Night of south winds night of the large few ...
Contents
Introduction | 3 |
SUNSET ON CALVARY | 17 |
Geoffrey Chaucer 1340?1400 | 30 |
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