A Little Treasury of British Poetry: The Chief Poets from 1500 to 1950Oscar Williams |
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... hear , when I do hear sweet music , The dreadful cries of murdered men in forests . STREPHON I wish to fire the trees of all these forests : I give the sun a last farewell each evening ; I curse the fiddling finders out of music : With ...
... hear , when I do hear sweet music , The dreadful cries of murdered men in forests . STREPHON I wish to fire the trees of all these forests : I give the sun a last farewell each evening ; I curse the fiddling finders out of music : With ...
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... hear . ' Drop thy pipe , thy happy pipe ; Sing thy songs of happy cheer ! ' So I sung the same again , While he wept with joy to hear . ' Piper , sit thee down and write In a book that all may read . ' So he vanish'd from my sight ; And ...
... hear . ' Drop thy pipe , thy happy pipe ; Sing thy songs of happy cheer ! ' So I sung the same again , While he wept with joy to hear . ' Piper , sit thee down and write In a book that all may read . ' So he vanish'd from my sight ; And ...
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... hear , I hear , with joy I hear ! -But there's a Tree , of many , one , A single Field which I have looked upon , Both of them speak of something that is gone : The Pansy at my feet Doth the same tale repeat : Whither is fled the ...
... hear , I hear , with joy I hear ! -But there's a Tree , of many , one , A single Field which I have looked upon , Both of them speak of something that is gone : The Pansy at my feet Doth the same tale repeat : Whither is fled the ...
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