Three Centuries of English Poetry: Being Selections from Chaucer to HerrickRosaline Orme Masson Macmillan and Company, 1876 - 391 páginas |
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... one knows , or knows something about ; and readings in old poetry are a very pleasant way indeed of increasing the number of one's dead acquaintances . The remark may be extended a little . There is xii GENERAL PREFACE .
... one knows , or knows something about ; and readings in old poetry are a very pleasant way indeed of increasing the number of one's dead acquaintances . The remark may be extended a little . There is xii GENERAL PREFACE .
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... Dead , and Buried in a Gentle Heart The Suitors to Fame 34 · 35 Good Counsel of Chaucer 38 100 From the Canterbury Tales . The Pilgrims Assemble at the Tabard Inn among the Poor Hawkin , the Active Man God's Minstrels The Poor Man's ...
... Dead , and Buried in a Gentle Heart The Suitors to Fame 34 · 35 Good Counsel of Chaucer 38 100 From the Canterbury Tales . The Pilgrims Assemble at the Tabard Inn among the Poor Hawkin , the Active Man God's Minstrels The Poor Man's ...
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... Dead Man's Head , which was sent to him from an Honourable Gentlewoman for a Token 136 138 140 • 97 . 99 ΙΟΙ The Ballad of London Lack- • 142 penny 102 Harry Hafter , the Toady . 143 A Mediæval School - Boy • 105 A Lament for Philip ...
... Dead Man's Head , which was sent to him from an Honourable Gentlewoman for a Token 136 138 140 • 97 . 99 ΙΟΙ The Ballad of London Lack- • 142 penny 102 Harry Hafter , the Toady . 143 A Mediæval School - Boy • 105 A Lament for Philip ...
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... Dead 274 The Shepherd's Wife's Song A Visit from Cupid • 303 303 Fair Samela · · 304 • · 275 ABRAHAM FRAUNCE . 304 277 " There came Wise Men from the East " 277 305 277 HENRY CONSTABLE 306 · 279 On Dying . 280 A Beggar at the Door of ...
... Dead 274 The Shepherd's Wife's Song A Visit from Cupid • 303 303 Fair Samela · · 304 • · 275 ABRAHAM FRAUNCE . 304 277 " There came Wise Men from the East " 277 305 277 HENRY CONSTABLE 306 · 279 On Dying . 280 A Beggar at the Door of ...
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... dead for nine years , and Richard and the country were still ruled by Edward's sons . The peasantry had failed in 1381 to obtain from the youthful king or the Parliament enfranchisement from serfdom . Religious reform had been checked ...
... dead for nine years , and Richard and the country were still ruled by Edward's sons . The peasantry had failed in 1381 to obtain from the youthful king or the Parliament enfranchisement from serfdom . Religious reform had been checked ...
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Æneid anon beast beauty Ben Jonson bird birdès Book called Cambridge Canterbury Tales Chaucer cloth College Confessio Amantis Court Crown 8vo dead death delight doth dread Edition ELEMENTARY Elizabethan England England's Helicon English English poetry Extra fcap eyes Faerie Queene fair fcap fear Fellow flowers frae Gavin Douglas gold golden grace green hast hath head hear heart heaven heavenly Henry Henry VIII honour King lady literary literature live London Lord lovers merry micht mind Muses never night noble nocht nought Owens College pain pastoral pity poem poet poetry praise Queen quoth reign richt Satires sayn School Scotland Scottish shepherd sing song Sonnets sorrow soul Spenser sweet tears tell thee thing thou thought TREATISE Trouvères unto verse weell Whilk wight wist
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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!