Poems in English, 1530-1940: Edited, with Critical and Historical Notes and EssaysDavid Daiches, William Charvat |
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... nature : For I have learned To look on nature , not as in the hour Of thoughtless youth ; but hearing often - times The still , sad music of humanity . The poet escapes from his fellows to find man - and it is “ man ” in the abstract ...
... nature : For I have learned To look on nature , not as in the hour Of thoughtless youth ; but hearing often - times The still , sad music of humanity . The poet escapes from his fellows to find man - and it is “ man ” in the abstract ...
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... nature led : more like a man Flying from something that he dreads , than one Who sought the thing he loved . For nature then ( The coarser pleasures of my boyish days , And their glad animal movements all gone by ) To me was all in all ...
... nature led : more like a man Flying from something that he dreads , than one Who sought the thing he loved . For nature then ( The coarser pleasures of my boyish days , And their glad animal movements all gone by ) To me was all in all ...
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... Nature he has lived , So in the eye of Nature let him die ! " STRANGE FITS OF PASSION HAVE I KNOWN " Strange fits of passion have I known : And I will dare to tell , But in the lover's ear alone , What once to me befell . When she I ...
... Nature he has lived , So in the eye of Nature let him die ! " STRANGE FITS OF PASSION HAVE I KNOWN " Strange fits of passion have I known : And I will dare to tell , But in the lover's ear alone , What once to me befell . When she I ...
Contents
Introduction | 3 |
HENRY HOWARD EARL OF SURREY 15161547 | 12 |
Come sleep O sleep the certain knot of peace 15 Stella oft sees the very face of woe | 18 |
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