The Centuries' Poetry: Chaucer to ShakespeareDenys Kilham Roberts Penguin Books, 1950 - English poetry |
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... soon decaying ' Like flowers we spring up fair but soon decaying ; Our days and years are in their prime declining ; Man's life on such uncertainties is founded ; The wheel of fickle fate is never staying ; Time every hour our thread of ...
... soon decaying ' Like flowers we spring up fair but soon decaying ; Our days and years are in their prime declining ; Man's life on such uncertainties is founded ; The wheel of fickle fate is never staying ; Time every hour our thread of ...
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... soon as April bringeth The soote season , that bud and bloom forth brings The world's a bubble , and the life of man 106 139 69 64 165 There is a garden in her face There was also a Nun , a Prioress Therefore doth heaven divide 163 29 ...
... soon as April bringeth The soote season , that bud and bloom forth brings The world's a bubble , and the life of man 106 139 69 64 165 There is a garden in her face There was also a Nun , a Prioress Therefore doth heaven divide 163 29 ...
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... Soon after coming down from Cambridge he was called to the Bar , applying himself particularly to the laws of copyright and libel . His association with the Society of Authors , of which he is Secretary- General , dates back to 1928 ...
... Soon after coming down from Cambridge he was called to the Bar , applying himself particularly to the laws of copyright and libel . His association with the Society of Authors , of which he is Secretary- General , dates back to 1928 ...
Contents
GEOFFREY CHAUCER | 13 |
From The Nuns Priests Tale | 33 |
Chaucers Wordes unto Adam His Own Scriveyn | 39 |
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