Fifteen Poets: Chaucer, Spenser, Shakespeare [and Others] ...Selections of the best work of the masters of English poetry from Chaucer to Arnold. Each group of selections is preceded by short essays of appreciation and summaries of the poets' lives. |
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Page 272
... voice did they impart― No voice ; but oh ! the silence sank Like music on my heart . But soon I heard the dash of oars , I heard the Pilot's cheer ; My head was turned perforce away , And I saw a boat appear . The Pilot and the Pilot's ...
... voice did they impart― No voice ; but oh ! the silence sank Like music on my heart . But soon I heard the dash of oars , I heard the Pilot's cheer ; My head was turned perforce away , And I saw a boat appear . The Pilot and the Pilot's ...
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... voice , Joy the luminous cloud- We in ourselves rejoice ! And thence flows all that charms or ear or sight , All melodies the echoes of that voice , All colours a suffusion from that light . There was a time when , though my path was ...
... voice , Joy the luminous cloud- We in ourselves rejoice ! And thence flows all that charms or ear or sight , All melodies the echoes of that voice , All colours a suffusion from that light . There was a time when , though my path was ...
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... voice Of Cœlus , from the universal space , Thus whisper'd low and solemn in his ear . ' O brightest of my children dear , earth - born And sky - engender'd , Son of Mysteries All unrevealed even to the powers Which met at thy creating ...
... voice Of Cœlus , from the universal space , Thus whisper'd low and solemn in his ear . ' O brightest of my children dear , earth - born And sky - engender'd , Son of Mysteries All unrevealed even to the powers Which met at thy creating ...
Contents
GEOFFREY CHAUCER By H S BENNETT | 8 |
The Dream | 33 |
The Fight of the Red Cross Knight and the Heathen | 54 |
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