English Prose and Poetry: Selected and AnnotatedGinn, 1938 - 882 pages |
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... HOPE Beautiful Evelyn Hope is dead ! 12 Sit and watch by her side an hour . That is her book - shelf , this her bed ; She plucked that piece of geranium - flower , Beginning to die too , in the glass ; Little has yet been changed , I ...
... HOPE Beautiful Evelyn Hope is dead ! 12 Sit and watch by her side an hour . That is her book - shelf , this her bed ; She plucked that piece of geranium - flower , Beginning to die too , in the glass ; Little has yet been changed , I ...
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... HOPE AND FEAR Beneath the shadow of dawn's aërial cope , With eyes enkindled as the sun's own sphere , Hope from the front of youth in godlike cheer Looks Godward , past the shades where blind men grope Round the dark door that prayers ...
... HOPE AND FEAR Beneath the shadow of dawn's aërial cope , With eyes enkindled as the sun's own sphere , Hope from the front of youth in godlike cheer Looks Godward , past the shades where blind men grope Round the dark door that prayers ...
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... hope could have no fear . 221 As I came through the desert thus it was , As I came through the desert : From the right A shape came slowly with a ruddy light ; A woman with a red lamp in her hand , Bareheaded and barefooted on that ...
... hope could have no fear . 221 As I came through the desert thus it was , As I came through the desert : From the right A shape came slowly with a ruddy light ; A woman with a red lamp in her hand , Bareheaded and barefooted on that ...
Contents
BEOWULF | 28 |
Cynewulf and Cyneheard | 34 |
JOHN GOWER 1325?1408 | 51 |
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