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 178
... head comes up with eares of Corne , and she combes them in her lap . Faire maiden white and red , Combe me smoothe , and stroke my head : And thou shalt have some cockell bread . Gently dippe , but not too deepe , For feare thou make ...
... head comes up with eares of Corne , and she combes them in her lap . Faire maiden white and red , Combe me smoothe , and stroke my head : And thou shalt have some cockell bread . Gently dippe , but not too deepe , For feare thou make ...
Page 287
... head So old , and white as this . O , ho ! ' tis foule . FOOLE . He that has a house to put's head in , has a good Head - peece : The Codpiece that will house , before the head has any ; The Head , and he shall Lowse : so Beggers marry ...
... head So old , and white as this . O , ho ! ' tis foule . FOOLE . He that has a house to put's head in , has a good Head - peece : The Codpiece that will house , before the head has any ; The Head , and he shall Lowse : so Beggers marry ...
Page 378
... head a crown of thorns I wear : For these are all the grapes Sion doth bear , Though I my vine planted and watred there : Was ever grief like mine ? So sits the earths great curse in Adams fall Upon my head : so I remove it all From th ...
... head a crown of thorns I wear : For these are all the grapes Sion doth bear , Though I my vine planted and watred there : Was ever grief like mine ? So sits the earths great curse in Adams fall Upon my head : so I remove it all From th ...
Contents
Introduction | 3 |
SUNSET ON CALVARY | 17 |
Geoffrey Chaucer 1340?1400 | 30 |
Copyright | |
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