Immortal Lyrics: An Anthology of English Lyric Poetry from Sir Walter Ralegh to A.E. HousmanHudson Strode |
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... pleasurable sensations that elude definition , that it can say something prose cannot say , unless the prose is itself ... pleasure . One reason for preparing this anthology was to have conveniently at hand two hun- dred short poems I do ...
... pleasurable sensations that elude definition , that it can say something prose cannot say , unless the prose is itself ... pleasure . One reason for preparing this anthology was to have conveniently at hand two hun- dred short poems I do ...
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... pleasure of my pain , Pleasure might cause her read , reading might make her know , Knowledge might pity win , and pity grace obtain , I sought fit words to paint the blackest face of woe , Studying inventions fine , her wits to ...
... pleasure of my pain , Pleasure might cause her read , reading might make her know , Knowledge might pity win , and pity grace obtain , I sought fit words to paint the blackest face of woe , Studying inventions fine , her wits to ...
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... pleasure . The budding twigs spread out their fan , To catch the breezy air ; And I must think , do all I can , That there was pleasure there . If this belief from heaven be sent , If such be Nature's holy plan , Have I not reason to ...
... pleasure . The budding twigs spread out their fan , To catch the breezy air ; And I must think , do all I can , That there was pleasure there . If this belief from heaven be sent , If such be Nature's holy plan , Have I not reason to ...
Contents
ANONYMOUS | 7 |
Poor soul the centre of my sinful earth | 10 |
As life what is so sweet | 31 |
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Immortal Lyrics: An Anthology of English Lyric Poetry from Sir Walter Ralegh ... Hudson Strode No preview available - 1938 |
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A. E. Housman beauty birds Blake bough breath bright Burns Camelot Carolinians cloud country loves Cuckoo Cynara darling buds dear death delight Donne dost doth earth Elizabethan eternal eyes fair fear fire flowers golden green grief hair happy hath hear heart heaven hour John Anderson John Donne kings kiss Lady of Shalott leaves light live look love a shepherd love is dead love's lovers loves such sweet Lycidas lyric lyric poetry moon morning move Nature Art ne'er never night o'er pale poems poetry poets rain river rose round shepherd swain shine sigh silent sing sleep smile song soul spring star summer sweet Afton sweet desires gain tears tell thee thine thing thou art thought thro tree true verse wanton weep wild William Blake willow-tree wind wind's twelve quarters wings