The Centuries' Poetry: Chaucer to ShakespeareDenys Kilham Roberts Penguin Books, 1950 - English poetry |
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Page 77
... goodly greenish locks , all loose untied , As each had been a bride ; And each one had a little wicker basket , Made of fine twigs , entrailéd curiously , In which they gather'd flowers to fill their flasket , And with fine fingers ...
... goodly greenish locks , all loose untied , As each had been a bride ; And each one had a little wicker basket , Made of fine twigs , entrailéd curiously , In which they gather'd flowers to fill their flasket , And with fine fingers ...
Page 81
... goodly to be seen Two gentle Knights of lovely face and feature , Beseeming well the bower of any queen , With gifts of wit , and ornaments of nature , Fit for so goodly stature , That like the twins of Jove they seem'd in sight , Which ...
... goodly to be seen Two gentle Knights of lovely face and feature , Beseeming well the bower of any queen , With gifts of wit , and ornaments of nature , Fit for so goodly stature , That like the twins of Jove they seem'd in sight , Which ...
Page 89
... goodly vermill stain , Like crimson dyed in grain ; That even the angels , which continually About the sacred altar do remain , Forget their service and about her fly , Oft peeping in her face , that seems more fair The more they on it ...
... goodly vermill stain , Like crimson dyed in grain ; That even the angels , which continually About the sacred altar do remain , Forget their service and about her fly , Oft peeping in her face , that seems more fair The more they on it ...
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