Written by Arthur Quiller-Couch
The Warwickshire Avon
by Arthur Quiller-CouchUR journey opens in Northamptonshire, and in that season when the year grows ancient,“Not yet on summer’s death, nor on the birthOf trembling winter.”In the stubble the crack! crack! of a stray gun speaks, now and again, of partridge-time. Over the pastures, undulating with ridge and furrow, where the black oxen feed, patches of gloom and gleam are..
The Oxford Book of English Verse, 1250-1900
by Arthur Quiller-CouchFor this Anthology I have tried to range over the whole field of English Verse from the beginning, or from the Thirteenth Century to this closing year of the Nineteenth, and to choose the best. Glosses of archaic and otherwise difficult words are given at the foot of the page: but the text has not been disfigured with reference-marks. And rather th..