An Oxford Anthology of English Poetry |
From inside the book
Results 1-3 of 76
Page 288
VII Ar the round earths imagin'd corners , blow Your trumpets , Angells , and arise , arise From death , you numberlesse ... Despaire , law , chance , hath slaine , and you whose eyes , Shall behold God , and never tast deaths woe .
VII Ar the round earths imagin'd corners , blow Your trumpets , Angells , and arise , arise From death , you numberlesse ... Despaire , law , chance , hath slaine , and you whose eyes , Shall behold God , and never tast deaths woe .
Page 306
When clothes are taken from a chest of sweets 4 To swaddle infants , whose young breath Scarce knows the way , Those clouts are little winding - sheets , Which do consign and send them unto death . When boyes go first to bed , ΙΟ They ...
When clothes are taken from a chest of sweets 4 To swaddle infants , whose young breath Scarce knows the way , Those clouts are little winding - sheets , Which do consign and send them unto death . When boyes go first to bed , ΙΟ They ...
Page 312
She'l offer them her dearest breath , With Christ's name in't , in change for death . Sh'el bargain with them , and will give Them God ; teach them how to live In him : or , if they this deny , For him she'l teach them how to dy .
She'l offer them her dearest breath , With Christ's name in't , in change for death . Sh'el bargain with them , and will give Them God ; teach them how to live In him : or , if they this deny , For him she'l teach them how to dy .
What people are saying - Write a review
We haven't found any reviews in the usual places.
Contents
Medieval Lyrics | 1 |
The Franklins Tale | 16 |
The wordes of the Host to the Phisicien | 28 |
Copyright | |
49 other sections not shown
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
arms beauty breath bright bring clouds cold dark dead dear death deep delight doth dream earth eyes face fair fall fear feel fields fire flowers give grace green hand happy hast hath head hear heard heart heaven hill hope hour kind King lady land leave less light live look Lord lost meet mind morning move Nature never night o'er once pain pass poem pride published rest rise rose round seemed seen side sight sing sleep song soon soul sound spirit spring stand stars stood sweet tears tell thee thine things thou thought till true turn voice wild wind woods Written youth
Bibliographic information
| Title | An Oxford Anthology of English Poetry |
| Editors | Howard Foster Lowry, Willard Thorp |
| Contributor | Margaret Farrand Thorp |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press, 1947 |
| Original from | the University of Virginia |
| Digitized | 11 Jun 2009 |
| Length | 1232 pages |
| Export Citation | BiBTeX EndNote RefMan |