The Atlantic Book of British and American Poetry, Band 2Edith Sitwell Little, Brown, 1958 - 1092 Seiten The Atlantic Book of British and American Poetry is the Life's work of a master reader and a practicing major poet: Dame Edith Sitwell. In a volume which is a labor of love as well as of scholarship, Dame Edith has brought together within the covers of a single book the best of poetry in English, from the earliest pre-Chaucerian lyrics to the British and American poets of the 1950's. -Book leaf |
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... SPIRIT OF THE UNIVERSE Wisdom and Spirit of the universe ! - Thou Soul that art the eternity of thought , That givest to forms and images a breath And everlasting motion , not in vain By day or star - light thus from my first dawn Of ...
... SPIRIT OF THE UNIVERSE Wisdom and Spirit of the universe ! - Thou Soul that art the eternity of thought , That givest to forms and images a breath And everlasting motion , not in vain By day or star - light thus from my first dawn Of ...
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... Spirit's plastic stress Sweeps through the dull dense world , compelling there All new successions to the forms they wear ; Torturing th ' unwilling dross that checks its flight To its own likeness , as each mass may bear ; And bursting ...
... Spirit's plastic stress Sweeps through the dull dense world , compelling there All new successions to the forms they wear ; Torturing th ' unwilling dross that checks its flight To its own likeness , as each mass may bear ; And bursting ...
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... SPIRIT HAUNTS THE YEAR'S LAST HOURS A spirit haunts the year's last hours Dwelling amid these yellowing bowers : To himself he talks ; For at eventide , listening earnestly , At his work you may hear him sob and sigh In the walks ...
... SPIRIT HAUNTS THE YEAR'S LAST HOURS A spirit haunts the year's last hours Dwelling amid these yellowing bowers : To himself he talks ; For at eventide , listening earnestly , At his work you may hear him sob and sigh In the walks ...
Inhalt
Introduction | 3 |
SUNSET ON CALVARY | 17 |
Geoffrey Chaucer 1340?1400 | 30 |
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The Atlantic Book of British and American Poetry, Band 2 Edith Sitwell Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 1958 |
The Atlantic Book of British and American Poetry, Band 2 Edith Sitwell Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 1958 |
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assonances beauty bel amy birds blessed blood breast breath brest bright Centaurs clouds cold CRAZY JANE dark dead dear death DEFLORES delight DESDEMONA dost doth dream earth Edith Sitwell eyes face fair fall fear fire flame flowers glory gold golden grace grave green grief hair HAMLET hand hath head hear heard heart heaven hell Hippodamia Jennifer gentle King kiss lady land LEAR leaves light lips live look Lord MACBETH moon mordre morning never night Nymph o'er OTHELLO Pirithous poem queen rose round shadow shine sigh sight sing sleep snow soft song soul sound spirit spring stars Stephen Spender strange Sunne sweet tears tell thee thine things thou art thought Timor mortis conturbat tree unto voice W. H. Auden waves weep wind wings words