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 43
85 40 90 45 Bring with you all the nymphs that you can hear , Both of the rivers and the forests green , And of the sea that neighbours to her near , All with gay garlands goodly well beseen . And let them also with them bring in hand ...
85 40 90 45 Bring with you all the nymphs that you can hear , Both of the rivers and the forests green , And of the sea that neighbours to her near , All with gay garlands goodly well beseen . And let them also with them bring in hand ...
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Bring her up to th'high altar , that she may 215 The sacred ceremonies there partake , The which do endless matrimony make ; And let the roaring organs loudly play The praises of the Lord in lively notes , The whiles with hollow throats ...
Bring her up to th'high altar , that she may 215 The sacred ceremonies there partake , The which do endless matrimony make ; And let the roaring organs loudly play The praises of the Lord in lively notes , The whiles with hollow throats ...
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... thy original crime hath wrought In some to spring from thee ; who never touched 425 The excepted tree ; nor with the snake conspired ; Nor sinned thy sin ; yet from that sin derive Corruption , to bring forth more violent deeds .
... thy original crime hath wrought In some to spring from thee ; who never touched 425 The excepted tree ; nor with the snake conspired ; Nor sinned thy sin ; yet from that sin derive Corruption , to bring forth more violent deeds .
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Contents
12122 | 44 |
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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