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 667
Exceeding was the love he bare to him , His heart and his heart's joy ! For oftentimes Old Michael , while he was a babe in arms , Had done him female service , not alone For pastime and delight , as is the use Of fathers , but with ...
Exceeding was the love he bare to him , His heart and his heart's joy ! For oftentimes Old Michael , while he was a babe in arms , Had done him female service , not alone For pastime and delight , as is the use Of fathers , but with ...
Page 758
Each spake words of high disdain And insult to his heart's best brother : They parted - ne'er to meet again ! But never either found another To free the hollow heart from paining - They stood aloof , the scars remaining , Like cliffs ...
Each spake words of high disdain And insult to his heart's best brother : They parted - ne'er to meet again ! But never either found another To free the hollow heart from paining - They stood aloof , the scars remaining , Like cliffs ...
Page 968
But to her heart , her heart was voluble , Paining with eloquence her balmy side ; As though a tongueless nightingale should swell Her throat in vain , and die , heart - stified , in her dell . 24 A casement high and triple - arched ...
But to her heart , her heart was voluble , Paining with eloquence her balmy side ; As though a tongueless nightingale should swell Her throat in vain , and die , heart - stified , in her dell . 24 A casement high and triple - arched ...
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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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