Collins Albatross Book of Verse: English and American Poetry from the Thirteenth Century to the Present Day |
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Page 440
This grass is very dark to be from the white heads of old mothers , Darker than the colourless beards of old men , Dark to come from under the faint red roofs of mouths . O I perceive after all so many uttering tongues , And I perceive ...
This grass is very dark to be from the white heads of old mothers , Darker than the colourless beards of old men , Dark to come from under the faint red roofs of mouths . O I perceive after all so many uttering tongues , And I perceive ...
Page 517
O banquet of a foul delight , Prepared by thee , dark Paraclete ! Thou art the whisper in the gloom , The hinting tone , the haunting laugh : Thou art the adorner of my tomb , The minstrel of mine epitaph .
O banquet of a foul delight , Prepared by thee , dark Paraclete ! Thou art the whisper in the gloom , The hinting tone , the haunting laugh : Thou art the adorner of my tomb , The minstrel of mine epitaph .
Page 544
Down in the earth , in dark , alone , A mockery of the ghost in bone , The strangeness , passing the unknown . Time will go by , that outlasts clocks , Dawn in the thorps will rouse the cocks , Sunset be glory on the rocks : But it ...
Down in the earth , in dark , alone , A mockery of the ghost in bone , The strangeness , passing the unknown . Time will go by , that outlasts clocks , Dawn in the thorps will rouse the cocks , Sunset be glory on the rocks : But it ...
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| Title | Collins Albatross Book of Verse: English and American Poetry from the Thirteenth Century to the Present Day School edition |
| Editor | Louis Untermeyer |
| Edition | revised |
| Publisher | Collins, 1960 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 7 Dec 2007 |
| Length | 672 pages |
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