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 174
640 Sweet is the breath of morn , her rising sweet , With charm of earliest birds : pleasant the sun , When first on ... and sweet the coming on Of grateful evening mild ; then silent night , With this her solemn bird , and this fair ...
640 Sweet is the breath of morn , her rising sweet , With charm of earliest birds : pleasant the sun , When first on ... and sweet the coming on Of grateful evening mild ; then silent night , With this her solemn bird , and this fair ...
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20 They look in every thoughtless nest , Where birds are covered warm ; They visit caves of every beast , To keep them all from harm . If they see any weeping That should have been sleeping , They pour sleep on their head , And sit down ...
20 They look in every thoughtless nest , Where birds are covered warm ; They visit caves of every beast , To keep them all from harm . If they see any weeping That should have been sleeping , They pour sleep on their head , And sit down ...
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The ancient Mariner inhospitably killeth the pious bird of good omen . ' God save thee , ancient Mariner ! ... 100 ' Twas right , said they , such birds to slay , That bring the fog and mist . The shipmates , in their sore distress ...
The ancient Mariner inhospitably killeth the pious bird of good omen . ' God save thee , ancient Mariner ! ... 100 ' Twas right , said they , such birds to slay , That bring the fog and mist . The shipmates , in their sore distress ...
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Contents
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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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