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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... waves beside them danced ; but they Out - did the sparkling waves in glee : A poet could not but be gay , In such a jocund company : I gazed and gazed - but little thought What wealth the show to me had brought : For oft , when on my ...
... waves beside them danced ; but they Out - did the sparkling waves in glee : A poet could not but be gay , In such a jocund company : I gazed and gazed - but little thought What wealth the show to me had brought : For oft , when on my ...
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... waves are dancing fast and bright , Blue isles and snowy mountains wear The purple noon's transparent might , The breath of the moist earth is light , Around its unexpanded buds ; Like many a voice of one delight , The winds , the birds ...
... waves are dancing fast and bright , Blue isles and snowy mountains wear The purple noon's transparent might , The breath of the moist earth is light , Around its unexpanded buds ; Like many a voice of one delight , The winds , the birds ...
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... waves roar . We shall see , while above us The waves roar and whirl , A ceiling of amber , A pavement of pearl . Singing : ' Here came a mortal , But faithless was she ! And alone dwell for ever The kings of the sea . ' But , children ...
... waves roar . We shall see , while above us The waves roar and whirl , A ceiling of amber , A pavement of pearl . Singing : ' Here came a mortal , But faithless was she ! And alone dwell for ever The kings of the sea . ' But , children ...
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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Æneid ancient Mariner beauty behold beneath blow breast breath bright calm Camelot Christabel cloud Coleridge dæmons dark dead dear death deep doth dramatic lyric dream Dryden earth eternal Excalibur eyes Faerie Queene fair fame fear feel flowers GEORGE GORDON BYRON hand happy hast hath hear heard heart heaven hill Keats King King Arthur Kubla Khan Lady of Shalott light live look lord Lycidas lyric Matthew Arnold mighty Milton mind moon morn Muse Nature never night o'er once pain pale Paradise Lost poems poet poetic poetry Pope rose round Samian wine Scholar Gipsy Shelley shine shore silent sing Sir Bedivere sleep soft song soul sound spirit stars sweet tears Tennyson thee thine things thou art thought thro verse voice wandering waves weary wild wind woods Wordsworth youth