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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... things it to admire . Yee Angells , help : This fill would to the brim Heav'ns whelm'd - down Chrystall meele Bowle ... things present , or things to come ; all are yours . My Lord , my Life , can Envy ever bee A Golden Vertue ? Then ...
... things it to admire . Yee Angells , help : This fill would to the brim Heav'ns whelm'd - down Chrystall meele Bowle ... things present , or things to come ; all are yours . My Lord , my Life , can Envy ever bee A Golden Vertue ? Then ...
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... things , and old things wane before his eyes Who wields and wrecks them , being more strong But , having made me , me he shall not slay . Nor slay nor satiate , like those herds of his Who laugh and live a little , and their kiss ...
... things , and old things wane before his eyes Who wields and wrecks them , being more strong But , having made me , me he shall not slay . Nor slay nor satiate , like those herds of his Who laugh and live a little , and their kiss ...
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... THINGS " O cruel Death , give three things back , " Sang a bone upon the shore ; " A child found all a child can lack , Whether of pleasure or of rest , Upon the abundance of my breast " : A bone wave - whitened and dried in the wind ...
... THINGS " O cruel Death , give three things back , " Sang a bone upon the shore ; " A child found all a child can lack , Whether of pleasure or of rest , Upon the abundance of my breast " : A bone wave - whitened and dried in the wind ...
Contents
Introduction | 3 |
SUNSET ON CALVARY | 17 |
Geoffrey Chaucer 1340?1400 | 30 |
Copyright | |
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