A Treasury of Great Poems: English and American, from the Foundations of the English Spirit to the Outstanding Poetry of Our Own Time, with Lives of the Poets and Historical SettingsLouis Untermeyer Simon and Schuster, 1942 - 1288 pages |
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ballad beauty Ben Jonson birds born breast breath bright CANTERBURY TALES captain's gig Chanticleer Chaucer child Childe Maurice dark dead dear death delight doth dream earth Emily Dickinson English eyes fair father fear fire flowers glory gold grace green hair hand hast hath hear heard heart heaven Keats king kiss lady leaves light lips live look Lord Lord Randal love's lover Lycidas mind moon mordre morning never night o'er passion play pleasure poems poet poetry praise rose RUBÁIYÁT Shakespeare Shelley sighs sing Sir Patrick Spens sleep Sleeping at last smile song sonnets soul sound spirit spring stars sweet T. S. Eliot TAMBURLAINE tears tell thee thine things thou art thought tree turned unto verse voice weep Westminster Abbey wild wind wings words Wordsworth wrote young youth