A Little Treasury of British Poetry: The Chief Poets from 1500 to 1950Oscar Williams |
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... Bright effluence of bright essence increate . Or hearest thou rather pure Ethereal stream , Whose Fountain who shall tell ? before the Sun , Before the Heavens thou wert , and at the voice Of God , as with a Mantle didst invest The ...
... Bright effluence of bright essence increate . Or hearest thou rather pure Ethereal stream , Whose Fountain who shall tell ? before the Sun , Before the Heavens thou wert , and at the voice Of God , as with a Mantle didst invest The ...
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... bright - eyed Mariner . " The ship was cheer'd , the harbour clear'd , Merrily did we drop Below the kirk , below the hill , southward with Below the lighthouse top . a good wind and fair weather , till it reached the Line . The Wedding ...
... bright - eyed Mariner . " The ship was cheer'd , the harbour clear'd , Merrily did we drop Below the kirk , below the hill , southward with Below the lighthouse top . a good wind and fair weather , till it reached the Line . The Wedding ...
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... bright'ning , Thou dost float and run , Like an unbodied joy whose race is just begun . The pale purple even Melts around thy flight ; Like a star of heaven , In the broad daylight Thou art unseen , but yet I hear thy shrill delight ...
... bright'ning , Thou dost float and run , Like an unbodied joy whose race is just begun . The pale purple even Melts around thy flight ; Like a star of heaven , In the broad daylight Thou art unseen , but yet I hear thy shrill delight ...
Contents
The Chief Poets 1500 to 1900 | 3 |
Songs | 17 |
William Cartright | 203 |
Copyright | |
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Common terms and phrases
A. E. Housman beauty birds blood blow breast breath bright burning clouds cold Danny Deever dark dead dear death deep doth dream dust Dylan Thomas earth eternal eyes face fair fall fear fire flowers glory grave green Gunga Din hand happy hath head hear heard heart heaven hill honour kiss land leaves light lips live look Lord Lord Randal love's lovers mind moon morning never night o'er pain poems poets praise rain Robert Bridges Robert Graves rose round Samian wine shadow shine ship sigh silent sing sleep smile snow song soul spirit spring stars strange sweet T. S. Eliot tears tell thee thine things thou art thought tree turn unto voice W. B. Yeats W. H. Auden W. H. Davies weep wild wind wings wonder youth