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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... strange , I trow ! Where are those lights so many and fair , That signal made but now ? ' 525 ' Strange , by my faith ! ' the Hermit said- ' And they answered not our cheer ! I never saw aught like to them , The planks look warped ! and ...
... strange , I trow ! Where are those lights so many and fair , That signal made but now ? ' 525 ' Strange , by my faith ! ' the Hermit said- ' And they answered not our cheer ! I never saw aught like to them , The planks look warped ! and ...
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... strange at Ecbatan the trees Take leaf by leaf the evening strange The flooding dark about their knees The mountains over Persia change 15 5 10 And now at Kermanshah the gate Dark empty and the withered grass And through the twilight ...
... strange at Ecbatan the trees Take leaf by leaf the evening strange The flooding dark about their knees The mountains over Persia change 15 5 10 And now at Kermanshah the gate Dark empty and the withered grass And through the twilight ...
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... strange wind blowing Steadily , stiffening the walls , the floor , The roof of my room . I had not slept for knowing 10 He too , dead , was a stranger in that land And felt beneath the earth in the wind's flowing A tightening of roots ...
... strange wind blowing Steadily , stiffening the walls , the floor , The roof of my room . I had not slept for knowing 10 He too , dead , was a stranger in that land And felt beneath the earth in the wind's flowing A tightening of roots ...
Contents
OLD ENGLISH BALLADS | 3 |
OR THE TWO SISTERS | 10 |
THE WIFE OF USHERS WELL | 16 |
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