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 211
... sleeping : Softly , now softly lies sleeping . Sleepe is a reconciling , A rest that peace begets : Doth not the sunne rise smiling , When faire at ev'n he sets ? Rest you , then rest sad eyes , Melt not in weeping , While she lies sleeping ...
... sleeping : Softly , now softly lies sleeping . Sleepe is a reconciling , A rest that peace begets : Doth not the sunne rise smiling , When faire at ev'n he sets ? Rest you , then rest sad eyes , Melt not in weeping , While she lies sleeping ...
Page 588
... sleep ! it is a gentle thing , Beloved from pole to pole ! To Mary Queen the praise be given ! She sent the gentle sleep from Heaven , That slid into my soul . The silly buckets on the deck , That had so long remained , I dreamt that ...
... sleep ! it is a gentle thing , Beloved from pole to pole ! To Mary Queen the praise be given ! She sent the gentle sleep from Heaven , That slid into my soul . The silly buckets on the deck , That had so long remained , I dreamt that ...
Page 949
... sleep . Argos , Chimaera , Athene in one solution were immersed . Around him , on bush and blade , each dewdrop mirrored A star , his riding star , his universe , While on the moonlit flowers at his side Pegasus grazed , palpable ...
... sleep . Argos , Chimaera , Athene in one solution were immersed . Around him , on bush and blade , each dewdrop mirrored A star , his riding star , his universe , While on the moonlit flowers at his side Pegasus grazed , palpable ...
Contents
Introduction | 3 |
SUNSET ON CALVARY | 17 |
Geoffrey Chaucer 1340?1400 | 30 |
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assonances beauty bel amy birds blessed blood breast breath brest bright Centaurs clouds cold CRAZY JANE dark dead dear death DEFLORES delight DESDEMONA dost doth dream earth Edith Sitwell eyes face fair fall fear fire flame flowers glory gold golden grace grave green grief hair HAMLET hand hath head hear heard heart heaven hell Hippodamia Jennifer gentle King kiss lady land LEAR leaves light lips live look Lord MACBETH moon mordre morning never night Nymph o'er OTHELLO Pirithous poem queen rose round shadow shine sigh sight sing sleep snow soft song soul sound spirit spring stars Stephen Spender strange Sunne sweet tears tell thee thine things thou art thought Timor mortis conturbat tree unto voice W. H. Auden waves weep wind wings words