London in Poetry and ProseAnna Adams Enitharmon, 2003 - 205 頁 This anthology is a celebration of the city of London: Noisy, stimulating, deadening, filthy, mysterious, tolerant, racist, crime-ridden, saint-haunted, ancient, up-to-the-minute, oppressive, liberating, crowded, lonely, addictive, and green-and-gardened, London is a microcosm of the World. These words, from Anna Adams Foreword, give a taste of the breadth of subject-matter and tone to be enjoyed in this magnificent illustrated anthology. Writing from the Middle Ages to the present is divided into themes including The Weather in the Streets, The Poor and the Rich, The Countryman in Town, The Recent Wars and unavoidably London Transport ." |
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第 1 到 3 筆結果,共 13 筆
第 69 頁
... hear of looking in your heart ? I didn't mean your pocket , Mr , no : I mean that having children and a wife , With thirty bob on which to come and go , Isn't dancing to the tabor and the fife : When it doesn't make you drink , by ...
... hear of looking in your heart ? I didn't mean your pocket , Mr , no : I mean that having children and a wife , With thirty bob on which to come and go , Isn't dancing to the tabor and the fife : When it doesn't make you drink , by ...
第 157 頁
... hear each other groan ; Where palsy shakes a few , sad , last grey hairs , Where youth grows pale , and spectre - thin , and dies ; Where but to think is to be full of sorrow And leaden - eyed despairs ; Where beauty cannot keep her ...
... hear each other groan ; Where palsy shakes a few , sad , last grey hairs , Where youth grows pale , and spectre - thin , and dies ; Where but to think is to be full of sorrow And leaden - eyed despairs ; Where beauty cannot keep her ...
第 161 頁
... hear your chuckle Among the streets and squares of my part of London , Though you're bad news , I fear , For the little singing birds I love so well , Who are trying to rear their broods now , in treacherous April ; You and your flash ...
... hear your chuckle Among the streets and squares of my part of London , Though you're bad news , I fear , For the little singing birds I love so well , Who are trying to rear their broods now , in treacherous April ; You and your flash ...
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