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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... tree he fleigh anon . And whan the fox saugh that he was y - gon , ' Allas ! ' quod he , ' O Chauntecleer , allas ! I have to yow , ' quod he , " y - doon trespas , In - as - muche as I maked yow aferd , Whan I yow hente , and broghte ...
... tree he fleigh anon . And whan the fox saugh that he was y - gon , ' Allas ! ' quod he , ' O Chauntecleer , allas ! I have to yow , ' quod he , " y - doon trespas , In - as - muche as I maked yow aferd , Whan I yow hente , and broghte ...
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... tree , Mocks married men ; for thus sings he , Cuckoo ; Cuckoo , cuckoo : O , word of fear , Unpleasing to a married ear ! When shepherds pipe on oaten straws , And merry larks are ploughmen's clocks , When turtles tread , and rooks ...
... tree , Mocks married men ; for thus sings he , Cuckoo ; Cuckoo , cuckoo : O , word of fear , Unpleasing to a married ear ! When shepherds pipe on oaten straws , And merry larks are ploughmen's clocks , When turtles tread , and rooks ...
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... tree bright Against the west - I miss it ! is it gone ? We prized it dearly ; while it stood , we said , Our friend , the Gipsy - Scholar , was not dead ; While the tree lived , he in these fields lived on . Too rare , too rare , grow ...
... tree bright Against the west - I miss it ! is it gone ? We prized it dearly ; while it stood , we said , Our friend , the Gipsy - Scholar , was not dead ; While the tree lived , he in these fields lived on . Too rare , too rare , grow ...
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