A Little Treasury of British Poetry: The Chief Poets from 1500 to 1950Oscar Williams |
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... blood of an illustrious race , In quiet flow from Lucrece to Lucrece : But by your father's worth if yours you rate , Count me those only who were good and great . Go ! if your ancient , but ignoble blood Has crept through scoundrels ...
... blood of an illustrious race , In quiet flow from Lucrece to Lucrece : But by your father's worth if yours you rate , Count me those only who were good and great . Go ! if your ancient , but ignoble blood Has crept through scoundrels ...
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... blood and brain ? It is most great , Through blood and brain alone it wrestles Fate . X Can it be blood and brain , this transient force Which , by an impulse , seizes flesh and grows To man , the thing less splendid than the horse ...
... blood and brain ? It is most great , Through blood and brain alone it wrestles Fate . X Can it be blood and brain , this transient force Which , by an impulse , seizes flesh and grows To man , the thing less splendid than the horse ...
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... Blood , spirit in this war . But night begins , Night of the mind : who nowadays is conscious of our sins ? Though every human deed concerns our blood , And even we must know what nobody has understood , That some great love is over all ...
... Blood , spirit in this war . But night begins , Night of the mind : who nowadays is conscious of our sins ? Though every human deed concerns our blood , And even we must know what nobody has understood , That some great love is over all ...
Contents
The Chief Poets 1500 to 1900 | 3 |
Songs | 17 |
William Cartright | 203 |
Copyright | |
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Common terms and phrases
A. E. Housman beauty birds blood blow breast breath bright burning clouds cold Danny Deever dark dead dear death deep doth dream dust Dylan Thomas earth eternal eyes face fair fall fear fire flowers glory grave green Gunga Din hand happy hath head hear heard heart heaven hill honour kiss land leaves light lips live look Lord Lord Randal love's lovers mind moon morning never night o'er pain poems poets praise rain Robert Bridges Robert Graves rose round Samian wine shadow shine ship sigh silent sing sleep smile snow song soul spirit spring stars strange sweet T. S. Eliot tears tell thee thine things thou art thought tree turn unto voice W. B. Yeats W. H. Auden W. H. Davies weep wild wind wings wonder youth