Specimens of the Lyrical, Descriptive, and Narrative Poets of Great Britain, from Chaucer to the Present Day:: With a Preliminary Sketch of the History of Early English Poetry, and Biographical and Critical Notices, |
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I have watched all night on the beach where the seagulls , whose plumes glitter ,
sport on the bed of billows , and where herb . age growing in a solitary place is of
a deep green , That is , it was the hour of noon . tended the Danes in their ...
I have watched all night on the beach where the seagulls , whose plumes glitter ,
sport on the bed of billows , and where herb . age growing in a solitary place is of
a deep green , That is , it was the hour of noon . tended the Danes in their ...
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The clearč rede among the rockis rang , Through green branches where the
byrds blythly sang , With joyous voice in heavenly harmony ; When Wallace
thought it was no time to lie ; He crossed himself , syne suddenly arose To take
the air ...
The clearč rede among the rockis rang , Through green branches where the
byrds blythly sang , With joyous voice in heavenly harmony ; When Wallace
thought it was no time to lie ; He crossed himself , syne suddenly arose To take
the air ...
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Now was ther made , fast by the touris wall , A garden fair ; and in the corners set
An herber green , with wandis long and small Railed about , and so with treeis
set Was all the place , and hawthorn hedges knet ; That life was none [ a ]
walking ...
Now was ther made , fast by the touris wall , A garden fair ; and in the corners set
An herber green , with wandis long and small Railed about , and so with treeis
set Was all the place , and hawthorn hedges knet ; That life was none [ a ]
walking ...
Page 68
The comic poetry ascribed to King James I . has been ever more popular in
Scotland than his romantic and sentimental effusions . Christ ' s Kirk on the Green
is as just , if not so comprehensive , a picture of low - life as any that Chaucer has
...
The comic poetry ascribed to King James I . has been ever more popular in
Scotland than his romantic and sentimental effusions . Christ ' s Kirk on the Green
is as just , if not so comprehensive , a picture of low - life as any that Chaucer has
...
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The poet , who drops asleep on Flora ' s mantle , sees a fairy - vessel , superbly
decorated , sail on through a sunny bay , and land its fair freight of an hundred
nymphs among the green rushes and reeds of an enamelled meadow . This fair ...
The poet , who drops asleep on Flora ' s mantle , sees a fairy - vessel , superbly
decorated , sail on through a sunny bay , and land its fair freight of an hundred
nymphs among the green rushes and reeds of an enamelled meadow . This fair ...
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| Title | Specimens of the Lyrical, Descriptive, and Narrative Poets of Great Britain, from Chaucer to the Present Day:: With a Preliminary Sketch of the History of Early English Poetry, and Biographical and Critical Notices, |
| Author | John Johnstone (of Edinburgh.) |
| Editor | John Johnstone (of Edinburgh.) |
| Contributor | Oliver and Boyd (Edinburgh, Scotland) |
| Publisher | Oliver & Boyd, 1828 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 24 Mar 2006 |
| Length | 560 pages |
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