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... GAWAIN AND THe Green KnIGHT ( fourteenth century ) SONGS ( thirteenth century ) Cuckoo Song Spring Song Alysoun Blow , Northern Wind + Aww w www . 30 BALLADS 32 Kemp Owyne 63 33 Sir Patrick Spence . 64 The Wife of Usher's Well ' 64 34 ...
... GAWAIN AND THe Green KnIGHT ( fourteenth century ) SONGS ( thirteenth century ) Cuckoo Song Spring Song Alysoun Blow , Northern Wind + Aww w www . 30 BALLADS 32 Kemp Owyne 63 33 Sir Patrick Spence . 64 The Wife of Usher's Well ' 64 34 ...
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... Gawain and the Green Knight , best of English romances , and The Pearl , most delicately imagined of English allegorical visions . Chaucer's personal friend Gower turns , after having written in Latin and in French , at last to English ...
... Gawain and the Green Knight , best of English romances , and The Pearl , most delicately imagined of English allegorical visions . Chaucer's personal friend Gower turns , after having written in Latin and in French , at last to English ...
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... GAWAIN AND THE GREEN KNIGHT AFTER the siege and the assault of Troy , when that burg was destroyed and burnt to ashes , and the traitor tried for his treason , the noble Æneas and his kin sailed forth to become princes and pa- trons of ...
... GAWAIN AND THE GREEN KNIGHT AFTER the siege and the assault of Troy , when that burg was destroyed and burnt to ashes , and the traitor tried for his treason , the noble Æneas and his kin sailed forth to become princes and pa- trons of ...
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... Gawain was seated by Guinevere the queen , and on her other side sat Agravain , à la dure main ; both were the king's sister's sons and full gallant knights . And at the end of the table was Bishop Bawdewyn , and Ywain , King Urien's ...
... Gawain was seated by Guinevere the queen , and on her other side sat Agravain , à la dure main ; both were the king's sister's sons and full gallant knights . And at the end of the table was Bishop Bawdewyn , and Ywain , King Urien's ...
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... Gawain , who sat by the queen , leaned forward to the king and spake , " I beseech ye , my lord , let this venture be mine . Would ye but bid me rise from this seat , and stand by your side , so that my liege lady thought it not ill ...
... Gawain , who sat by the queen , leaned forward to the king and spake , " I beseech ye , my lord , let this venture be mine . Would ye but bid me rise from this seat , and stand by your side , so that my liege lady thought it not ill ...
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Page 122 - Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments. Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove: O, no ! it is an ever-fixed mark, That looks on tempests and is never shaken; It is the star to every wandering bark, Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken. Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come; Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of...
Page 405 - We look before and after, And pine for what is not: Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought. Yet if we could scorn Hate, and pride, and fear; If we were things born Not to shed a tear, I know not how thy joy we ever should come near. Better than all measures Of delightful sound, Better than all treasures That in books are found, Thy skill to poet were, thou scorner of the ground ! Teach me half the gladness That thy brain must know,...
Page 293 - Perhaps the Christian volume is the theme: How guiltless blood for guilty man was shed; How He Who bore in Heaven the second name Had not on earth whereon to lay His head; How His first followers and servants sped; The precepts sage they wrote to many a land; How he, who lone in' Patmos banished, Saw in the sun a mighty angel stand, And heard great Bab'lon's doom pronounced by Heaven's command. Then kneeling down to Heaven's Eternal King, The saint, the father, and the husband prays; Hope 'springs...
Page 389 - Had half impair'd the nameless grace Which waves in every raven tress, Or softly lightens o'er her face ; Where thoughts serenely sweet express How pure, how dear their dwelling-place. And on that cheek, and o'er that brow, So soft, so calm, yet eloquent, The smiles that win, the tints that glow, But tell of days in goodness spent, A mind at peace with all below, A heart whose love is innocent ! "OH! SNATCH'D AWAY.
Page 121 - gainst his glory fight, And time, that gave, doth now his gift confound. Time doth transfix the flourish set on youth, And delves the parallels in beauty's brow; Feeds on the rarities of nature's truth, And nothing stands but for his scythe to mow. And yet to times in hope my verse shall stand, Praising thy worth, despite his cruel hand.
Page 704 - Requiem Under the wide and starry sky, Dig the grave and let me lie. Glad did I live and gladly die, And I laid me down with a will. This be the verse you grave for me: Here he lies where he longed to be; Home is the sailor, home from sea, And the hunter home from the hill.
Page 413 - The breath whose might I have invoked in song Descends on me; my spirit's bark is driven, Far from the shore, far from the trembling throng Whose sails were never to the tempest given; The massy earth and sphered skies are riven! I am borne darkly, fearfully, afar; Whilst burning through the inmost veil of Heaven, The soul of Adonais, like a star, Beacons from the abode where the Eternal are.
Page 611 - Sweet and low, sweet and low, Wind of the western sea, Low, low, breathe and blow, Wind of the western sea ! Over the rolling waters go, Come from the dying moon, and blow, Blow him again to me; While my little one, while my pretty one, sleeps. Sleep and rest, sleep and rest, Father will come to thee soon ; Rest, rest, on mother's breast, Father will come to thee soon; Father will come to his babe in the nest, Silver sails all out of the west Under the silver moon : Sleep, my little one, sleep, my...
Page 600 - Winding down to Camelot: There the river eddy whirls, And there the surly village-churls, And the red cloaks of market girls, Pass onward from Shalott. Sometimes a troop of damsels glad, An abbot on an ambling pad, Sometimes a curly shepherd-lad, Or long-hair'd page in crimson clad, Goes by to tower'd Camelot.; And sometimes thro' the mirror blue The knights come riding two and two : She hath no loyal knight and true, The Lady of Shalott. But in her web, she still delights To weave the mirror's magic...
Page 618 - She is coming, my dove, my dear; She is coming, my life, my fate; The red rose cries, 'She is near, she is near;' And the white rose weeps, 'She is late;' The larkspur listens, 'I hear, I hear;' And the lily whispers, 'I wait.