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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A Millennial Anthology Seán McMahon. [ from ] Ode to the West Wind Percy Bysshe Shelley ( 1792-1822 ) I O wild West Wind , thou breath of Autumn's being , Thou from whose unseen presence the leaves dead Are driven , like ghosts from an ...
A Millennial Anthology Seán McMahon. [ from ] Ode to the West Wind Percy Bysshe Shelley ( 1792-1822 ) I O wild West Wind , thou breath of Autumn's being , Thou from whose unseen presence the leaves dead Are driven , like ghosts from an ...
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... wind ; Or on a half - reap'd furrow sound asleep , Drowsed with the fumes of poppies , while thy hook Spares the next swath and all its twinèd flowers ; And sometimes like a gleaner thou dost keep Steady thy laden head across a brook ...
... wind ; Or on a half - reap'd furrow sound asleep , Drowsed with the fumes of poppies , while thy hook Spares the next swath and all its twinèd flowers ; And sometimes like a gleaner thou dost keep Steady thy laden head across a brook ...
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... wind blew out of a cloud by night Chilling my Annabel Lee ; So that her highborn kinsmen came And bore her away from me , To shut her up in a sepulchre In this kingdom by the sea . The angels , not half so happy in Heaven , Went envying ...
... wind blew out of a cloud by night Chilling my Annabel Lee ; So that her highborn kinsmen came And bore her away from me , To shut her up in a sepulchre In this kingdom by the sea . The angels , not half so happy in Heaven , Went envying ...
Contents
Introduction | 11 |
Beatha an Scoláire Anon | 17 |
Young and Old Charles Kingsley | 23 |
Copyright | |
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