The Book of Living Verse: Limited to the Chief PoetsLouis Untermeyer Emphasizes 57 poets instead of 167 poets as in the original edition. |
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Page 153
... comes ; Sound the trumpets ; beat the drums ; Flushed with a purple grace He shows his honest face : Now give the hautboys breath ; he comes , he comes . Bacchus , ever fair and young , Drinking joys did first ordain ; 50 55 Bacchus ...
... comes ; Sound the trumpets ; beat the drums ; Flushed with a purple grace He shows his honest face : Now give the hautboys breath ; he comes , he comes . Bacchus , ever fair and young , Drinking joys did first ordain ; 50 55 Bacchus ...
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... COME TO YE , MY LAD Chorus . - O whistle an ' I'll come to ye , my lad , O whistle an ' I'll come to ye , my lad , 10 15 Tho ' father an ' mother an ' a ' should gae mad , O whistle an ' I'll come to ye , my lad , But warily tent when ye ...
... COME TO YE , MY LAD Chorus . - O whistle an ' I'll come to ye , my lad , O whistle an ' I'll come to ye , my lad , 10 15 Tho ' father an ' mother an ' a ' should gae mad , O whistle an ' I'll come to ye , my lad , But warily tent when ye ...
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... comes over the sunlit arch , A wind comes off a frozen peak , And you're two months back in the middle of March . A bluebird comes tenderly up to alight 25 And fronts the wind to unruffle a plume , His song so pitched as not to excite A ...
... comes over the sunlit arch , A wind comes off a frozen peak , And you're two months back in the middle of March . A bluebird comes tenderly up to alight 25 And fronts the wind to unruffle a plume , His song so pitched as not to excite A ...
Contents
OLD ENGLISH BALLADS | 3 |
OR THE TWO SISTERS | 10 |
THE WIFE OF USHERS WELL | 16 |
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Annabel Lee beauty beneath bird blow breast breath bright Camelot cloud cold dark dead dear death deep delight dost doth dream E. E. Cummings earth Emily Dickinson eternal Excalibur eyes face fair fear flowers frae glory golden grass grave green hair hand hath hear heard heart Heaven hill HOUNDS OF SPRING hour King King Arthur kiss Lady Lady of Shalott leaves light lips live look Lord lovers Lycidas mighty moon morn mortal never night nymph o'er once pain pale Ring rose round shadow shine sighed silent sing Sir Bedivere sleep smile soft song soul sound spirit spring stars Stephen Vincent Benét stream sweet T. S. Eliot tears Thammuz thee thine things thou art thought tree twas voice wandering waves weary weep wild wind wings