Fifteen Poets: Chaucer, Spenser, Shakespeare [and Others] ...Selections of the best work of the masters of English poetry from Chaucer to Arnold. Each group of selections is preceded by short essays of appreciation and summaries of the poets' lives. |
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... loue should breede both ioy and payne . It is not Hobbinol , wherefore I plaine , Albee my loue he seeke with dayly suit : His clownish gifts and curtsies I disdaine , His kiddes , his cracknelles , and his early fruit . Ah foolish ...
... loue should breede both ioy and payne . It is not Hobbinol , wherefore I plaine , Albee my loue he seeke with dayly suit : His clownish gifts and curtsies I disdaine , His kiddes , his cracknelles , and his early fruit . Ah foolish ...
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... loue does ly In proud humility ; Like vnto Maia , when as Ioue her tooke , In Tempe , lying on the flowry gras , Twixte sleepe and wake , after she weary was , With bathing in the Acidalian brooke . Now it is night , ye damsels may be ...
... loue does ly In proud humility ; Like vnto Maia , when as Ioue her tooke , In Tempe , lying on the flowry gras , Twixte sleepe and wake , after she weary was , With bathing in the Acidalian brooke . Now it is night , ye damsels may be ...
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... loue , the which betwixt vs past , My yong Ambrosia , in lieu of mee Loue her : so shall our loue for euer last . Thus deare adieu , whom I expect ere long : So hauing said , away she softly past : Weep Shepheard weep , to make mine ...
... loue , the which betwixt vs past , My yong Ambrosia , in lieu of mee Loue her : so shall our loue for euer last . Thus deare adieu , whom I expect ere long : So hauing said , away she softly past : Weep Shepheard weep , to make mine ...
Contents
GEOFFREY CHAUCER By H S BENNETT | 8 |
The Dream | 33 |
The Fight of the Red Cross Knight and the Heathen | 54 |
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