English Prose and Poetry: Selected and AnnotatedGinn, 1938 - 882 pages |
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... flowers , through Thessaly they stream , 80 That they appear , through lilies ' plenteous store , Like a bride's chamber floor . Two of those nymphs , meanwhile , two gar- lands bound Of freshest flowers which in that mead they found ...
... flowers , through Thessaly they stream , 80 That they appear , through lilies ' plenteous store , Like a bride's chamber floor . Two of those nymphs , meanwhile , two gar- lands bound Of freshest flowers which in that mead they found ...
Page 643
... flowers toward the heat They stretch and spread and wink Their ten soft buds that part and meet . No flower - bells that expand and shrink Gleam half so heavenly sweet As shine on life's untrodden brink A baby's feet . 7 II 2 1 ...
... flowers toward the heat They stretch and spread and wink Their ten soft buds that part and meet . No flower - bells that expand and shrink Gleam half so heavenly sweet As shine on life's untrodden brink A baby's feet . 7 II 2 1 ...
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... flower . In the shape of the flower his own paltriness revisits him his triviality , his sloth , his cheapness , his ... flowers . It blooms , a dry , woollen , papery , cast - iron garden . The floor flourishes with blossoms adust ...
... flower . In the shape of the flower his own paltriness revisits him his triviality , his sloth , his cheapness , his ... flowers . It blooms , a dry , woollen , papery , cast - iron garden . The floor flourishes with blossoms adust ...
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BEOWULF | 28 |
Cynewulf and Cyneheard | 34 |
JOHN GOWER 1325?1408 | 51 |
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