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 195
... Sing Hymnes to Fortunes deitie , Sing Hymnes to Fortunes deitie . Let us sing merrily , merrily , merrily , With our Song let heaven resound , Fortunes hands our heads have crown'd , Let us sing merrily , merrily , merrily . O PITTIE ...
... Sing Hymnes to Fortunes deitie , Sing Hymnes to Fortunes deitie . Let us sing merrily , merrily , merrily , With our Song let heaven resound , Fortunes hands our heads have crown'd , Let us sing merrily , merrily , merrily . O PITTIE ...
Page 353
... sing of cleanly - Wantonnesse . I sing of Dewes , of Raines , and piece by piece Of Balme , of Oyle , of Spice , and Amber - Greece . I sing of Times trans - shifting ; and I write How Roses first came Red , and Lillies White . I write ...
... sing of cleanly - Wantonnesse . I sing of Dewes , of Raines , and piece by piece Of Balme , of Oyle , of Spice , and Amber - Greece . I sing of Times trans - shifting ; and I write How Roses first came Red , and Lillies White . I write ...
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... sing , and louder sing For every tatter in its mortal dress , Nor is there singing school but studying Monuments of its own magnificence ; And therefore I have sailed the seas and come To the holy city of Byzantium . O sages standing in ...
... sing , and louder sing For every tatter in its mortal dress , Nor is there singing school but studying Monuments of its own magnificence ; And therefore I have sailed the seas and come To the holy city of Byzantium . O sages standing in ...
Contents
Introduction | 3 |
SUNSET ON CALVARY | 17 |
Geoffrey Chaucer 1340?1400 | 30 |
Copyright | |
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