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 543
True ease in writing comes from art , not chance , As those move easiest who have learn'd to dance . ' Tis not enough no harshness gives offense , The sound must seem an echo to the sense ; Soft is the strain when zephyr gently blows ...
True ease in writing comes from art , not chance , As those move easiest who have learn'd to dance . ' Tis not enough no harshness gives offense , The sound must seem an echo to the sense ; Soft is the strain when zephyr gently blows ...
Page 738
I moved , and could not feel my limbs : I was so light - almost I thought that I had died in sleep , And was a blessed ghost . 310 And soon I heard a roaring wind : It did not come anear ; But with its sound it shook the sails ...
I moved , and could not feel my limbs : I was so light - almost I thought that I had died in sleep , And was a blessed ghost . 310 And soon I heard a roaring wind : It did not come anear ; But with its sound it shook the sails ...
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... beautiful of pilots , Where never mortal pinnace glided , The boat of my desire is guided : Realms where the air we breathe is love , Which in the winds and on the waves doth move , Harmonizing this earth with what we feel above .
... beautiful of pilots , Where never mortal pinnace glided , The boat of my desire is guided : Realms where the air we breathe is love , Which in the winds and on the waves doth move , Harmonizing this earth with what we feel above .
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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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