A Second Book of English Poetry |
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Contents
The Ballad of Chevy Chace | 1 |
A Summers Evening Drayton | 8 |
Imagination in Adversity from Richard II | 20 |
Thy Glorious Works from Paradise Lost | 27 |
The Bard | 34 |
A mans a man for a that Burns | 41 |
On Milton | 46 |
Brignalls Banks from Rokeby | 54 |
The Slaves Dream | 87 |
Hiawathas Sailing | 94 |
From the Ode on the Death of the Duke | 109 |
To the Queen | 115 |
From The Island of the Scots | 121 |
A Glance behind the Curtain | 127 |
The Vision of Sir Launfal | 133 |
Green Fields of England Clough | 140 |
The Ocean | 61 |
The Isles of Greece | 67 |
The Cloud | 75 |
On first looking into Chapmans Homer | 81 |
From A Legend of Thermopylae | 147 |
The Naiad | 155 |
He fell among thieves | 162 |
Notes | 171 |
Common terms and phrases
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