The Atlantic Book of British and American Poetry, Volume 2Edith Sitwell The Atlantic Book of British and American Poetry is the Life's work of a master reader and a practicing major poet: Dame Edith Sitwell. In a volume which is a labor of love as well as of scholarship, Dame Edith has brought together within the covers of a single book the best of poetry in English, from the earliest pre-Chaucerian lyrics to the British and American poets of the 1950's. -Book leaf |
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Page 496
... green , and gay ; And every hair upon your heads shines like the silver wire , Drawing near unto the merry month of May . God bless this house and arbour , your riches and your store , For the summer springs so fresh , green , and gay ...
... green , and gay ; And every hair upon your heads shines like the silver wire , Drawing near unto the merry month of May . God bless this house and arbour , your riches and your store , For the summer springs so fresh , green , and gay ...
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... green vine angering for life , As the immense dew of Florida Brings forth hymn and hymn From the beholder , Beholding all these green sides . And gold sides of green sides , And blessed mornings Meet for the eye of the young alligator ...
... green vine angering for life , As the immense dew of Florida Brings forth hymn and hymn From the beholder , Beholding all these green sides . And gold sides of green sides , And blessed mornings Meet for the eye of the young alligator ...
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... green and carefree , famous among the barns About the happy yard and singing as the farm was home , In the sun that is young once only , And Time let me play and be Golden in the mercy of his means , green and golden I was huntsman and ...
... green and carefree , famous among the barns About the happy yard and singing as the farm was home , In the sun that is young once only , And Time let me play and be Golden in the mercy of his means , green and golden I was huntsman and ...
Contents
Introduction | 3 |
SUNSET ON CALVARY | 17 |
Geoffrey Chaucer 1340?1400 | 30 |
Copyright | |
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