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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... kiss no men , Till they did for good and all . Then she made the shepherd call All the heavens to witness truth ... kisses concluded : And Phyllida with garlands gay Was made the Lady of the May . Winter Edmund Spenser ( 1552–99 ) From ...
... kiss no men , Till they did for good and all . Then she made the shepherd call All the heavens to witness truth ... kisses concluded : And Phyllida with garlands gay Was made the Lady of the May . Winter Edmund Spenser ( 1552–99 ) From ...
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... kisses and the wine ; And I was desolate and sick of an old passion Yea , I was desolate and bowed my head : I have been faithful to thee , Cynara ! in my fashion . All night upon mine heart I felt her warm heart beat , Night - long ...
... kisses and the wine ; And I was desolate and sick of an old passion Yea , I was desolate and bowed my head : I have been faithful to thee , Cynara ! in my fashion . All night upon mine heart I felt her warm heart beat , Night - long ...
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A Millennial Anthology Seán McMahon. Jenny Kiss'd Me ( 1838 ) Leigh Hunt ( 1784-1859 ) Poetic compliment to Jane Welsh whose marriage to Thomas Carlyle made ' two people miserable instead of four ' according to Samuel Butler Jenny kiss'd ...
A Millennial Anthology Seán McMahon. Jenny Kiss'd Me ( 1838 ) Leigh Hunt ( 1784-1859 ) Poetic compliment to Jane Welsh whose marriage to Thomas Carlyle made ' two people miserable instead of four ' according to Samuel Butler Jenny kiss'd ...
Contents
Introduction | 11 |
Beatha an Scoláire Anon | 17 |
Young and Old Charles Kingsley | 23 |
Copyright | |
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Adlestrop ae nighte Alfred Lord Tennyson Annabel Lee Anon auld lang syne beauty became Beidh aonach amárach biby birds born in London breath bright brought summer Butter and eggs Cambridge Catholic Century Christe receive thye County Cuckoo Cynara darling died doth drink earth educated Ernest Dowson Eton eyes fair famous Fear féin an samradh fire Gerard Manley Hopkins Gin a body hath heart Heaven Ireland Irish John John-John kiss lass of Richmond lived love thee Lyonnesse married moon morn never Níl Oxford poems poet poetry pound of cheese receive thye saule rendezvous with Death Richmond Hill Robert Browning roses round samradh linn Seathrún Céitinn song soul Spanish Lady Spring stars Sweet lass thine Thomas thou Thugamar féin Trinity College verse Walter Savage Landor William Allingham William Shakespeare wind winter's written youth is pleasure