Three Centuries of English Poetry: Being Selections from Chaucer to HerrickRosaline Orme Masson Macmillan and Company, 1876 - 391 páginas |
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... Scottish poets perhaps to a modern reader , but of higher quality in some respects than any of his Scottish contemporaries . What is Gavin Douglas now , for most of his own countrymen even , but a pretendedly affectionate name for an ...
... Scottish poets perhaps to a modern reader , but of higher quality in some respects than any of his Scottish contemporaries . What is Gavin Douglas now , for most of his own countrymen even , but a pretendedly affectionate name for an ...
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... Scottish Lion " 6 ' King of Beasts " 124 127 A Scotch May Morning in 1513 Vision of Maphæus : or How Douglas came to add a Sup- plement to his Translation of Virgil . SIR DAVID LYNDSAY . Appeal to James V. , with Re- miniscences of his ...
... Scottish Lion " 6 ' King of Beasts " 124 127 A Scotch May Morning in 1513 Vision of Maphæus : or How Douglas came to add a Sup- plement to his Translation of Virgil . SIR DAVID LYNDSAY . Appeal to James V. , with Re- miniscences of his ...
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... Scottish nation and of Robert Bruce as the Scottish king . The poet Barbour-- born , it is believed , in the year 1316 - grew up in the midst of these events . He was Archdeacon of Aberdeen during the reigns of David II . , Robert II ...
... Scottish nation and of Robert Bruce as the Scottish king . The poet Barbour-- born , it is believed , in the year 1316 - grew up in the midst of these events . He was Archdeacon of Aberdeen during the reigns of David II . , Robert II ...
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... Scottish kings from Brutus downwards , is lost ; but some Lives of Northern Saints in verse , known to be his , have been lately discovered in MS.2 FROM THE BRUCE . SCOTLAND IN THRALDOM . When Sir Edward the michty king Had on this wise ...
... Scottish kings from Brutus downwards , is lost ; but some Lives of Northern Saints in verse , known to be his , have been lately discovered in MS.2 FROM THE BRUCE . SCOTLAND IN THRALDOM . When Sir Edward the michty king Had on this wise ...
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... Scottish prince was educated as a royal prisoner in England through the reigns of Henry IV . and Henry V. During his captivity he was an enthusiastic student of poetry , and at length himself produced one of the most graceful poems that ...
... Scottish prince was educated as a royal prisoner in England through the reigns of Henry IV . and Henry V. During his captivity he was an enthusiastic student of poetry , and at length himself produced one of the most graceful poems that ...
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Página 331 - Come away, come away, death, And in sad cypress let me be laid ; Fly away, fly away, breath ; I am slain by a fair cruel maid. My shroud of white, stuck all with yew, O, prepare it ! My part of death, no one so true Did share it.
Página 387 - Gather ye rosebuds while ye may, Old time is still a-flying, And this same flower that smiles to-day, Tomorrow will be dying.
Página 329 - When shepherds pipe on oaten straws, And merry larks are ploughmen's clocks, When turtles tread, and rooks, and daws, And maidens bleach their summer smocks, The cuckoo then, on every tree, Mocks married men, for thus sings he, Cuckoo ; Cuckoo, cuckoo...
Página 327 - Then hate me when thou wilt; if ever, now; Now, while the world is bent my deeds to cross, Join with the spite of fortune...
Página 324 - Time's glory is to calm contending kings, To unmask falsehood, and bring truth to light, To stamp the seal of time in aged things, To wake the morn, and sentinel the night, To wrong the wronger till he render right ; To ruinate proud buildings with thy hours, And smear with dust their glittering golden towers : 1 To fill with worm-holes stately monuments, To feed oblivion with decay of things, To blot old books, and alter their contents, To pluck the quills from ancient ravens...
Página 272 - Go, soul, the body's guest, Upon a thankless errand ! Fear not to touch the best, The truth shall be thy warrant Go, since I needs must die, And give the world the lie.
Página 330 - Tu-whit, tu-who ! a merry note, While greasy Joan doth keel the pot. When all aloud the wind doth blow, And coughing drowns the parson's saw, And birds sit brooding in the snow, And Marian's nose looks red and raw, When roasted crabs hiss in the bowl, Then nightly sings the staring owl, Tu-whit, tu-who...
Página 331 - Although thy breath be rude. Heigh-ho ! sing, heigh-ho ! unto the green holly : Most friendship is feigning, most loving mere folly : Then, heigh-ho, the holly ! This life is most jolly. Freeze, freeze, thou bitter sky, That dost not bite so nigh As benefits forgot : Though thou the waters warp, Thy sting is not so sharp As friend remember'd not.
Página 326 - Tired with all these for restful death I cry, As to behold desert a beggar born, And needy nothing trimmed in jollity, And purest faith unhappily forsworn, And gilded honour shamefully misplaced, And maiden virtue rudely strumpeted, And right perfection wrongfully disgraced, And strength by limping sway disabled And art made tongue-tied by authority, And folly (doctor-like) controlling skill, And simple truth miscalled simplicity, And captive good attending captain ill.
Página 329 - When shepherds pipe on oaten straws And merry larks are ploughmen's clocks, When turtles tread, and rooks, and daws, And maidens bleach their summer smocks The cuckoo then, on every tree, Mocks married men; for thus sings he, Cuckoo; Cuckoo, cuckoo: O word of fear, Unpleasing to a married ear!