The Batsford Book of English Poetry: Chaucer to ArnoldA compendium of English poetry from Chaucer to Matthew Arnold based on syllabus requirements from O Level to post A Level. It includes short lyrics, complete books and long epic poems. |
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Page 622
And we are put on earth a little space , That we may learn to bear the beams of love ; And these black bodies and this sun - burnt face Is but a cloud , and like a shady grove . For when our souls have learn'd the heat to bear ...
And we are put on earth a little space , That we may learn to bear the beams of love ; And these black bodies and this sun - burnt face Is but a cloud , and like a shady grove . For when our souls have learn'd the heat to bear ...
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And would we aught behold , of higher worth , Than that inanimate cold world allowed To the poor loveless ever - anxious crowd , Ah ! from the soul itself must issue forth A light , a glory , a fair luminous cloud Enveloping the Earth ...
And would we aught behold , of higher worth , Than that inanimate cold world allowed To the poor loveless ever - anxious crowd , Ah ! from the soul itself must issue forth A light , a glory , a fair luminous cloud Enveloping the Earth ...
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Their season in the night and wail their way 40 From cloud to cloud , down the long wind the dream Shrilled ; but in going mingled with dim cries Far in the moonlight haze among the hills , As of some lonely city sacked by night ...
Their season in the night and wail their way 40 From cloud to cloud , down the long wind the dream Shrilled ; but in going mingled with dim cries Far in the moonlight haze among the hills , As of some lonely city sacked by night ...
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Contents
1020 | 62 |
Alfred Lord Tennyson 180992 | 1005 |
Robert Browning 181289 | 1064 |
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Common terms and phrases
angels arms bear beauty breath bring cause cloud dark dead dear death deep delight doth dream earth eyes face fair fall father fear feel field fire flowers force gentle give grace green hand happy hast hath head hear heard heart heaven hell holy hope hour King Lady leave less light live look Lord lost mind move nature never night o'er once pain passed rest round seemed sense side sight sing sleep song soon soul sound spirit stand stars stood strength sweet tears tell thee things thou thought Till tree turned unto voice wind wings woods
Bibliographic information
| Title | The Batsford Book of English Poetry: Chaucer to Arnold |
| Editor | Barbara Lloyd Evans |
| Publisher | Batsford, 1989 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 22 May 2008 |
| ISBN | 0713456701, 9780713456707 |
| Length | 1200 pages |
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