Chaucer to BurnsH. Frowde, Oxford University Press, 1913 - English poetry |
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... Poem- Pauperizing - Dinner - table Talk - Concerning War - Atoms- With one Consent they made Excuse ' -The Shadow of Crime -June 22 , 1911 - Readable - Sophists - Sensations- Even as this Publican ! ' - Pleasure in Art - Cruelty - The ...
... Poem- Pauperizing - Dinner - table Talk - Concerning War - Atoms- With one Consent they made Excuse ' -The Shadow of Crime -June 22 , 1911 - Readable - Sophists - Sensations- Even as this Publican ! ' - Pleasure in Art - Cruelty - The ...
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... poems . A poem may be great by virtue of the prominence of some special quality : sublimity , as Paradise Lost ; passion , as the Cenci ; holiness , as The Retreat ; weirdness , as The Raven ; tenderness , as My Mother's Picture ...
... poems . A poem may be great by virtue of the prominence of some special quality : sublimity , as Paradise Lost ; passion , as the Cenci ; holiness , as The Retreat ; weirdness , as The Raven ; tenderness , as My Mother's Picture ...
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... poems , where it is wanting , my object has been to concen- trate regard upon those it glorifies . Where I have been unable to agree with a favourable contemporary view , I have differed with hesitation and doubt as to my own . Only in ...
... poems , where it is wanting , my object has been to concen- trate regard upon those it glorifies . Where I have been unable to agree with a favourable contemporary view , I have differed with hesitation and doubt as to my own . Only in ...
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... poems which through succeeding centuries never ceased to be read and loved . The rhythm he planted struck root so deeply that it has never lost its hold on the national ear . Dryden and Pope tried to improve upon it . Read their ...
... poems which through succeeding centuries never ceased to be read and loved . The rhythm he planted struck root so deeply that it has never lost its hold on the national ear . Dryden and Pope tried to improve upon it . Read their ...
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... poems he acknowledged . The neglect has for centuries been a waste of precious matter ; for he never wrote without striving to put into his work the best of himself according to his prevailing mood and subject . When his pen and they ...
... poems he acknowledged . The neglect has for centuries been a waste of precious matter ; for he never wrote without striving to put into his work the best of himself according to his prevailing mood and subject . When his pen and they ...
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Page 77 - Death, be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so; For those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow, Die not, poor Death, nor yet canst thou kill me. From rest and sleep, which but thy...
Page 50 - When to the sessions of sweet silent thought I summon up remembrance of things past, I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought, And with old woes new wail my dear time's waste...
Page 161 - Tell her that's young, And shuns to have her graces spied, That hadst thou sprung In deserts where no men abide, Thou must have uncommended died. Small is the worth Of beauty from the light retired ; Bid her come forth, Suffer herself to be desired, And not blush so to be admired. Then die, that she The common fate of all things rare May read in thee ; How small a part of time they share, That are so wondrous sweet and fair.
Page 234 - Blest with each talent and each art to please, And born to write, converse, and live with ease: Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne...
Page 115 - Far from all resort of mirth, Save the cricket on the hearth, Or the bellman's drowsy charm To bless the doors from nightly harm. Or let my lamp at midnight hour Be seen in some high lonely tower...
Page 178 - To ALTHEA FROM PRISON WHEN Love with unconfined wings Hovers within my gates, And my divine Althea brings To whisper at the grates ; When I lie tangled in her hair And fetter'd to her eye, The birds that wanton in the air Know no such liberty.
Page 200 - He makes the figs our mouths to meet. And throws the melons at our feet; But apples plants of such a price, No tree could ever bear them twice...
Page 110 - He that hath found some fledged bird's nest, may know At first sight if the bird be flown; But what fair well or grove he sings in now, That is to him unknown. And yet, as angels in some brighter dreams Call to the soul, when man doth sleep, So some strange thoughts transcend our wonted themes, And into glory peep.
Page 51 - Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer's lease hath all too short a date...
Page 299 - In all my wanderings round this world of care, In all my griefs, — and God has given my share, — I still had hopes, my latest hours to crown, Amidst these humble bowers to lay me down ; To husband out life's taper at the close, And keep the flame from wasting by repose.