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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... winds , seeking , seeking down the wind until we are unaware which is the wind and which is the wind's power over us to lead the mind away . and there grows in the mind a scent , it may be , of locust blossoms whose perfume is itself a wind ...
... winds , seeking , seeking down the wind until we are unaware which is the wind and which is the wind's power over us to lead the mind away . and there grows in the mind a scent , it may be , of locust blossoms whose perfume is itself a wind ...
Page 984
... WIND CHILLS Why east wind chills and south wind cools Shall not be known till windwell dries And west's no longer drowned In winds that bring the fruit and rind Of many a hundred falls ; Why silk is soft and the stone wounds The child ...
... WIND CHILLS Why east wind chills and south wind cools Shall not be known till windwell dries And west's no longer drowned In winds that bring the fruit and rind Of many a hundred falls ; Why silk is soft and the stone wounds The child ...
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... wind billowing out the seat of my britches " The wind doth blow today , my love " 973 105 The wind flapped loose , the wind was still 696 The winter comes ; I walk alone 659 The wish , that of the living whole 685 The witch that came ...
... wind billowing out the seat of my britches " The wind doth blow today , my love " 973 105 The wind flapped loose , the wind was still 696 The winter comes ; I walk alone 659 The wish , that of the living whole 685 The witch that came ...
Contents
Introduction | 3 |
SUNSET ON CALVARY | 17 |
Geoffrey Chaucer 1340?1400 | 30 |
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