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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... Happy , happy , happy pair ! None but the brave , None but the brave , None but the brave deserves the fair . CHORUS Happy , happy , happy pair ! None but the brave , None but the brave , None but the brave deserves the fair . Timotheus ...
... Happy , happy , happy pair ! None but the brave , None but the brave , None but the brave deserves the fair . CHORUS Happy , happy , happy pair ! None but the brave , None but the brave , None but the brave deserves the fair . Timotheus ...
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... happy Nature to explore , The fool is happy that he knows no more ; The rich is happy in the plenty given , The 186 ALEXANDER pope The Proper Study of Mankind Human Folly.
... happy Nature to explore , The fool is happy that he knows no more ; The rich is happy in the plenty given , The 186 ALEXANDER pope The Proper Study of Mankind Human Folly.
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... happy lot , But being too happy in thine happiness , - That thou , light - winged Dryad of the trees , In some melodious plot Of beechen green , and shadows numberless , Singest of summer in full - throated ease . I 1 brede ] interlaced ...
... happy lot , But being too happy in thine happiness , - That thou , light - winged Dryad of the trees , In some melodious plot Of beechen green , and shadows numberless , Singest of summer in full - throated ease . I 1 brede ] interlaced ...
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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