The Times Book of English VerseThe most comprehensive survey of English Verse available, covering seven centuries, from Chaucer to Heaney, and including longer poems - such as Paradise Lost and The Prelude - in their entirety. |
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Page 90
If I could write the beauty of your eyes And in fresh numbers number all your graces , The age to come would say ' This poet lies : Such heavenly touches ne'er touched earthly faces . ' So should my papers yellowed with their age Be ...
If I could write the beauty of your eyes And in fresh numbers number all your graces , The age to come would say ' This poet lies : Such heavenly touches ne'er touched earthly faces . ' So should my papers yellowed with their age Be ...
Page 96
127 IN THE old age black was not counted fair , Or if it were , it bore not beauty's name ; But now is black beauty's successive heir , And beauty slandered with a bastard shame : For since each hand hath put on nature's power , Fairing ...
127 IN THE old age black was not counted fair , Or if it were , it bore not beauty's name ; But now is black beauty's successive heir , And beauty slandered with a bastard shame : For since each hand hath put on nature's power , Fairing ...
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Yet love not me , nor seek thou to allure My thoughts with beauty , were it more divine ; Thy smiles and kisses I cannot endure , I'll not be wrapped up in those arms of thine . Now show it , if thou be a woman right , Embrace and kiss ...
Yet love not me , nor seek thou to allure My thoughts with beauty , were it more divine ; Thy smiles and kisses I cannot endure , I'll not be wrapped up in those arms of thine . Now show it , if thou be a woman right , Embrace and kiss ...
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Thomas Traherne 163774 | 74 |
Thomas Campion 15671620 | 98 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | The Times Book of English Verse Times books |
| Editor | Edward Leeson |
| Compiled by | Edward Leeson |
| Contributor | Times Books (Firm) |
| Publisher | Times Books, 2004 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 4 Mar 2008 |
| ISBN | 000472450X, 9780004724508 |
| Length | 703 pages |
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