The Centuries' Poetry: Chaucer to ShakespeareDenys Kilham Roberts Penguin Books, 1950 - English poetry |
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Denys Kilham Roberts. For fear of burning her sunshiny face , Her beauty to disgrace . O fairest Phoebus ! father of the Muse , If ever I did honour thee aright , Or sing the thing that mote thy mind delight , Do not thy servant's simple ...
Denys Kilham Roberts. For fear of burning her sunshiny face , Her beauty to disgrace . O fairest Phoebus ! father of the Muse , If ever I did honour thee aright , Or sing the thing that mote thy mind delight , Do not thy servant's simple ...
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... fear of peril and foul horror free . Let no false treason seek us to entrap , Nor any dread disquiet once annoy The ... fears , Break gentle sleep with misconceivéd doubt . Let no deluding dreams , nor dreadful sights , Make sudden sad ...
... fear of peril and foul horror free . Let no false treason seek us to entrap , Nor any dread disquiet once annoy The ... fears , Break gentle sleep with misconceivéd doubt . Let no deluding dreams , nor dreadful sights , Make sudden sad ...
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... fear , Unpleasing to a married ear ! When shepherds pipe on oaten straws And merry larks are ploughmen's clocks , When turtles tread , and rooks , and daws , And maidens bleach their summer smocks , The cuckoo then on every tree , Mocks ...
... fear , Unpleasing to a married ear ! When shepherds pipe on oaten straws And merry larks are ploughmen's clocks , When turtles tread , and rooks , and daws , And maidens bleach their summer smocks , The cuckoo then on every tree , Mocks ...
Contents
GEOFFREY CHAUCER | 13 |
From The Nuns Priests Tale | 33 |
Chaucers Wordes unto Adam His Own Scriveyn | 39 |
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