1000 Years of Poetry: A Millennial AnthologyIn In Memory of W.B. Yeats, his tribute to one of Britain's greatest poets, W.H. Auden said, Poetry makes nothing happen. He could not have been more wrong. This book presents a tiny fraction of the verse that poets have fashioned in the English language. |
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... face that's best By its own beauty drest , And can alone command the rest . A face made up Out of no other shop Than nature's white hand set ope . A cheek where youth , And blood , with pen of truth Write , what the reader sweetly ru'th ...
... face that's best By its own beauty drest , And can alone command the rest . A face made up Out of no other shop Than nature's white hand set ope . A cheek where youth , And blood , with pen of truth Write , what the reader sweetly ru'th ...
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... face to home again , And called myself a fool To think you'd leave the thimble men And live again by rule , And go to Mass and keep the fast And till the patch : My wish to have you home was past Before I raised the latch And pushed the ...
... face to home again , And called myself a fool To think you'd leave the thimble men And live again by rule , And go to Mass and keep the fast And till the patch : My wish to have you home was past Before I raised the latch And pushed the ...
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... face to face , When I have crost the bar . Prospice Robert Browning ( 1812-1989 ) Written in 1864 , [ 182 ] Crossing the Bar Alfred Lord Tennyson.
... face to face , When I have crost the bar . Prospice Robert Browning ( 1812-1989 ) Written in 1864 , [ 182 ] Crossing the Bar Alfred Lord Tennyson.
Contents
Introduction | 11 |
Beatha an Scoláire Anon | 17 |
Young and Old Charles Kingsley | 23 |
Copyright | |
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