British Poetry and Prose: A Book of ReadingsPaul Robert Lieder, Robert Morss Lovett, Robert Kilburn Root Houghton Mifflin Company, 1928 - 1346 pages Part 2 Wordworth to Yeats. |
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... earth , Wonder - bright lands , washed by the ocean ; 40 How he set , triumphant , sun and moon To lighten all men that live on the earth . He brightened the land with leaves and branches ; I The word Heorot means hart , stag . Life he ...
... earth , Wonder - bright lands , washed by the ocean ; 40 How he set , triumphant , sun and moon To lighten all men that live on the earth . He brightened the land with leaves and branches ; I The word Heorot means hart , stag . Life he ...
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... earth than him , Yon hero in harness . No house - carl he , In lordly array , if looks speak true , And noble bearing . But now I must learn Your names and country , ere nearer ye come , Underhand spies , for aught I know , - 60 65 In ...
... earth than him , Yon hero in harness . No house - carl he , In lordly array , if looks speak true , And noble bearing . But now I must learn Your names and country , ere nearer ye come , Underhand spies , for aught I know , - 60 65 In ...
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... earth that day . XII The Defeat of Grendel Loath in his heart was the hero - deliverer To let escape his slaughterous guest . Of little use that life he deemed 80 To human kind . The comrades of Beowulf Unsheathed their weapons to ward ...
... earth that day . XII The Defeat of Grendel Loath in his heart was the hero - deliverer To let escape his slaughterous guest . Of little use that life he deemed 80 To human kind . The comrades of Beowulf Unsheathed their weapons to ward ...
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... earth ; He will surely requite the kindness we showed him , Faithfully tend our two young sons , When to mind he recalls our care and affec- tion , How we helped him and housed him when he was a child . " She turned to the bench where ...
... earth ; He will surely requite the kindness we showed him , Faithfully tend our two young sons , When to mind he recalls our care and affec- tion , How we helped him and housed him when he was a child . " She turned to the bench where ...
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... earth . Then , eager to start , The warriors wakened ; they wished to set out On their homeward journey . The hero brave Would board his ship , and back again sail . The hardy one bade that Hrunting be brought 95 To the son of Ecglaf ...
... earth . Then , eager to start , The warriors wakened ; they wished to set out On their homeward journey . The hero brave Would board his ship , and back again sail . The hardy one bade that Hrunting be brought 95 To the son of Ecglaf ...
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