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They lookéd up and saw a star Shining in the East beyond them far , And to the earth it gave great light , And so it continued both day and night . Nowell & c . And by the light of that same star Three wise men came from country far ...
They lookéd up and saw a star Shining in the East beyond them far , And to the earth it gave great light , And so it continued both day and night . Nowell & c . And by the light of that same star Three wise men came from country far ...
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Ye stars ! which are the poetry of heaven If in your bright leaves we would read the fate Of men and empires ... and create In us such love and reverence from afar , That fortune , fame , power , life , have named themselves a star .
Ye stars ! which are the poetry of heaven If in your bright leaves we would read the fate Of men and empires ... and create In us such love and reverence from afar , That fortune , fame , power , life , have named themselves a star .
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NOEL : CHRISTMAS EVE , 1913 Pax hominibus bonae voluntatis A FROSTY Christmas Eve when the stars were shining Fared I forth alone where westward falls the hill , And from many a village in the water'd valley Distant music reach'd me ...
NOEL : CHRISTMAS EVE , 1913 Pax hominibus bonae voluntatis A FROSTY Christmas Eve when the stars were shining Fared I forth alone where westward falls the hill , And from many a village in the water'd valley Distant music reach'd me ...
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Contents
The Chief Poets 1500 to 1900 | 17 |
Sir Thomas More | 211 |
Henry Howard Earl of Andrew Marveli | 217 |
Copyright | |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | A Little Treasury of British Poetry: The Chief Poets from 1500 to 1950 The Little treasury series |
| Editor | Oscar Williams |
| Edition | revised |
| Publisher | Scribner, 1951 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 1 Mar 2008 |
| ISBN | 0684106671, 9780684106670 |
| Length | 874 pages |
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