The Centuries' Poetry: Chaucer to ShakespeareDenys Kilham Roberts Penguin Books, 1950 - English poetry |
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Page 84
... birds do chant their lays And carol of love's praise ! The merry lark her matins sings aloft , The thrush replies , the mavis descant plays , The ouzel shrills , the ruddock warbles soft , So goodly all agree , with sweet consent , To ...
... birds do chant their lays And carol of love's praise ! The merry lark her matins sings aloft , The thrush replies , the mavis descant plays , The ouzel shrills , the ruddock warbles soft , So goodly all agree , with sweet consent , To ...
Page 122
... birds do sing : Cuckoo , jug - jug , pu - we , to - witta - woo ! The palm and may make country houses gay , Lambs frisk and play , the shepherds pipe all day , And we hear aye birds tune this merry lay : Cuckoo , jug - jug , pu - we ...
... birds do sing : Cuckoo , jug - jug , pu - we , to - witta - woo ! The palm and may make country houses gay , Lambs frisk and play , the shepherds pipe all day , And we hear aye birds tune this merry lay : Cuckoo , jug - jug , pu - we ...
Page 172
... birds do sing Careless of thy sorrowing : Even so , poor bird , like thee None alive will pity me . CYRIL TOURNEUR Epitaph from The Atheist's Tragedy His body lies interred within this mould , Who died a young man yet departed old ; And ...
... birds do sing Careless of thy sorrowing : Even so , poor bird , like thee None alive will pity me . CYRIL TOURNEUR Epitaph from The Atheist's Tragedy His body lies interred within this mould , Who died a young man yet departed old ; And ...
Contents
GEOFFREY CHAUCER | 13 |
From The Nuns Priests Tale | 33 |
Chaucers Wordes unto Adam His Own Scriveyn | 39 |
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Adieu beauty behold birds bower bridal day bright CHIDIOCK TICHBORNE Clerk Saunders cloak Cuckoo Cupid dead dear death delight derry dost doth EARL earth echo ring end my song eyes fair Faustus fear flowers FRANCIS BEAUMONT garland gentle GEORGE GASCOIGNE glory gold goodly green Greensleeves grief Hark hast hath heart heaven Helen Henry Hey derry JOSHUA SYLVESTER King kiss lady light lilies live London Lord love's Love's Labour's Lost lovers loves such sweet lulla lusty married merry never night pain Phyllida flouts play poems Queen RICHARD BARNFIELD rose run softly sail shalt shepherd swain sigh sight silver sing Sir Patrick Spens sleep Sonnet sorrow soul Speech spring St John's College sweet desires gain Sweet Thames Tamburlaine thee thine things THOMAS LODGE thou wouldst Timor mortis conturbat tower unto Venus waly weep wind wise wouldst not love yolp