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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... pain , And Christabel with might and main Lifted her up , a weary weight , Over the threshold of the gate : Then the lady rose again , And moved , as she were not in pain . So free from danger , free from fear , They crossed the court ...
... pain , And Christabel with might and main Lifted her up , a weary weight , Over the threshold of the gate : Then the lady rose again , And moved , as she were not in pain . So free from danger , free from fear , They crossed the court ...
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... pain , pain ever , for ever ! No change , no pause , no hope ! Yet I endure . I ask the Earth , have not the mountains felt ? I ask yon Heaven , the all - beholding Sun , Has it not seen ? The Sea , in storm or calm , Heaven's ever ...
... pain , pain ever , for ever ! No change , no pause , no hope ! Yet I endure . I ask the Earth , have not the mountains felt ? I ask yon Heaven , the all - beholding Sun , Has it not seen ? The Sea , in storm or calm , Heaven's ever ...
Page 405
... pain on pain , Long labour unto aged breath , Sore task to hearts worn out by many wars And eyes grown dim with gazing on the pilot - stars . But , propt on beds of amaranth and moly , How sweet ( while warm airs lull us , blowing lowly ) ...
... pain on pain , Long labour unto aged breath , Sore task to hearts worn out by many wars And eyes grown dim with gazing on the pilot - stars . But , propt on beds of amaranth and moly , How sweet ( while warm airs lull us , blowing lowly ) ...
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