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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Edith Sitwell. THE WINTER'S SPRING The winter comes ; I walk alone , I want no birds to sing ; To those who keep their hearts their own , The winter is the spring . No flowers to please --- no bees to hum The coming spring's already come ...
Edith Sitwell. THE WINTER'S SPRING The winter comes ; I walk alone , I want no birds to sing ; To those who keep their hearts their own , The winter is the spring . No flowers to please --- no bees to hum The coming spring's already come ...
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... spring , But spring was heedless : April into May Passed , and the trees still wore their livery Of lean black winter's servants ; very strange Most lovely Easter played three days at summer , A heavy summer over winter's fields , Three ...
... spring , But spring was heedless : April into May Passed , and the trees still wore their livery Of lean black winter's servants ; very strange Most lovely Easter played three days at summer , A heavy summer over winter's fields , Three ...
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... springs allotted us , And who would rob a pauper of his pence ? Then broke the spring . The hedges in a day Burgeoned to green ; the drawing of the trees , Incomparably pencilled line by line , Thickened to heaviness , and men forgot ...
... springs allotted us , And who would rob a pauper of his pence ? Then broke the spring . The hedges in a day Burgeoned to green ; the drawing of the trees , Incomparably pencilled line by line , Thickened to heaviness , and men forgot ...
Contents
Introduction | 3 |
SUNSET ON CALVARY | 17 |
Geoffrey Chaucer 1340?1400 | 30 |
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assonances beauty bel amy birds blessed blood breast breath brest bright Centaurs clouds cold CRAZY JANE dark dead dear death DEFLORES delight DESDEMONA dost doth dream earth Edith Sitwell eyes face fair fall fear fire flame flowers glory gold golden grace grave green grief hair HAMLET hand hath head hear heard heart heaven hell Hippodamia Jennifer gentle King kiss lady land LEAR leaves light lips live look Lord MACBETH moon mordre morning never night Nymph o'er OTHELLO Pirithous poem queen rose round shadow shine sigh sight sing sleep snow soft song soul sound spirit spring stars Stephen Spender strange Sunne sweet tears tell thee thine things thou art thought Timor mortis conturbat tree unto voice W. H. Auden waves weep wind wings words