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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... thou pine within and suffer dearth , Painting thy outward walls so costly gay ? Why so large cost , having so short a lease , Dost thou upon thy fading mansion spend ? Shall worms , inheritors of this excess , Eat up thy charge ? is ...
... thou pine within and suffer dearth , Painting thy outward walls so costly gay ? Why so large cost , having so short a lease , Dost thou upon thy fading mansion spend ? Shall worms , inheritors of this excess , Eat up thy charge ? is ...
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... thou , Spirit of Delight ! Wherefore hast thou left me now Many a day and night ? Many a weary night and day ' Tis since thou art fled away . How shall ever one like me Win thee back again ? With the joyous and the free Thou wilt scoff ...
... thou , Spirit of Delight ! Wherefore hast thou left me now Many a day and night ? Many a weary night and day ' Tis since thou art fled away . How shall ever one like me Win thee back again ? With the joyous and the free Thou wilt scoff ...
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... Thou madest Life in man and brute ; Thou madest Death ; and lo , thy foot Is on the skull which thou hast made . Thou wilt not leave us in the dust ; Thou madest man , he knows not why , He thinks he was not made to die ; And thou hast ...
... Thou madest Life in man and brute ; Thou madest Death ; and lo , thy foot Is on the skull which thou hast made . Thou wilt not leave us in the dust ; Thou madest man , he knows not why , He thinks he was not made to die ; And thou hast ...
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