On a green hill, Makyne offers Robin her heart—and he tells her he knows nothing of love. But when she turns away, the shepherd begins to understand what he has let go. This anthology opens among the voices of medieval poets, where courtly longing, grief for a lost master and the changing seasons share the page. Arthur Quiller-Couch gathers English verse from the thirteenth century to the late nineteenth, setting celebrated poets beside anonymous songs and bringing readers close to the language of each age. Some lines arrive in spellings unfamiliar to modern eyes; others speak with startling directness, as Robin and Makyne discover that love may come too late. Across centuries of desire, sorrow and delight, what will these poems make newly vivid? With centuries of literature, it's inevitable that some will fall through the cracks. We hunt down public domain works and restore them so they're not lost to the world. Who are we? We're Cairn Press. Our background is in design, publishing, typography, and technology. These skills fuel our mission to create the highest quality Public Domain eBooks available online, at an affordable price. We give them the treatment they deserve; our proprietary process restores books for a better overall user experience in design, readability, and e-reader compatibility.
