The Methuen Book of Poems for Every Day"The Methuen Book of Poems for Every Day includes 366 poems by over two hundred poets from antiquity to the present. From Blake to Betjeman and Whitman to Wilde, the book blends familiar classics with unknown gems old and new. The result is at once a celebration of the greatest poets and their finest work, of the endless variety of the year - and of poetry itself, in all the glorious diversity of the form: lyric, epic and elegiac, sonnet, ballad, song, satire and romance." "Here are poems of every kind, to suit each day, each mood and season, all tastes and all ages: reflective, exuberant, mourning or joyful, loving or laughing. They chart every trajectory of human experience and emotion; and at the same time, they give it context within the shape of the year." "These poems are accompanied by notes that set them, day by day, in their historical record. Concise and informative, these include other notable events of that date, from births and deaths to coronations and catastrophes."--BOOK JACKET. |
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Page 114
... souls admit For their first mover , and are whirled by it . Hence is ' t , that I am carried towards the West This day , when my soul's form bends towards the East . There I should see a Sun , by rising , set , And by that setting ...
... souls admit For their first mover , and are whirled by it . Hence is ' t , that I am carried towards the West This day , when my soul's form bends towards the East . There I should see a Sun , by rising , set , And by that setting ...
Page 345
... soul , awake ! — Did in pure love descend To die here for thy sake . If thou canst get but thither , There grows the flower of Peace , The Rose that cannot wither , Thy fortress , and thy ease . Leave then thy foolish ranges For none ...
... soul , awake ! — Did in pure love descend To die here for thy sake . If thou canst get but thither , There grows the flower of Peace , The Rose that cannot wither , Thy fortress , and thy ease . Leave then thy foolish ranges For none ...
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... soul , there is a country , 345 Never the time and the place , 170 Nine drops of water bead the jessamine , 334 Nineteen - fourteen ! Oh , nineteen - fourteen !, 245 No coward soul is mine , 499 No gardener need go far to find , 478 No ...
... soul , there is a country , 345 Never the time and the place , 170 Nine drops of water bead the jessamine , 334 Nineteen - fourteen ! Oh , nineteen - fourteen !, 245 No coward soul is mine , 499 No gardener need go far to find , 478 No ...
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