The Shepherd's Calendar: Twelve Aeglogues Proportionable To The Twelve Months (1898)
By: Edmund Spenser
3.59
Format: 148 pages, Paperback
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain…
Want to Read $ 3.83"Ah for pittie, wil ranke Winters rage, These bitter blasts neuer ginne tasswage? The keene cold blowes throug my beaten hyde, All as I were through the body gryde. My ragged rontes all shiver and shake, As doen high Towers in an earthquake: They wont in the wind wagge their wrigle tailes, Perke as Peacock: but nowe it auales."-Edmund Spenser, The Shepherd's Calendar: Twelve Aeglogues Proportionable To The Twelve Months (1898)
"Ah for pittie, wil ranke Winters rage, These bitter blasts neuer ginne tasswage? The keene cold blowes throug my beaten hyde, All as I were through the body gryde. My ragged rontes all shiver and shake, As doen high Towers in an earthquake: They wont in the wind wagge their wrigle tailes, Perke as Peacock: but nowe it auales."-Edmund Spenser, The Shepherd's Calendar: Twelve Aeglogues Proportionable To The Twelve Months (1898)
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31. The Shepherd's Calendar: Twelve Aeglogues Proportionable To The Twelve Months (1898)
By: Edmund Spenser
3.59
Format: 148 pages, Paperback
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain… read more
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"Ah for pittie, wil ranke Winters rage, These bitter blasts neuer ginne tasswage? The keene cold blowes throug my beaten hyde, All as I were through the body gryde. My ragged rontes all shiver and sha…"-Edmund Spenser, The Shepherd's Calendar: Twelve Aeglogues Proportionable To The Twelve Months (1898)
