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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34 Why didst thou promise such a beauteous day , And make me travel forth without my cloak , To let base clouds o'ertake me in my way , Hiding thy bravery in their rotten smoke ? ' Tis not enough that through the cloud thou break , 5 To ...
34 Why didst thou promise such a beauteous day , And make me travel forth without my cloak , To let base clouds o'ertake me in my way , Hiding thy bravery in their rotten smoke ? ' Tis not enough that through the cloud thou break , 5 To ...
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605 665 Loth to believe what we so grieved to hear , For still we had hopes that pointed to the clouds , We questioned him again , and yet again ; But every word that from the peasant's lips Came in reply , translated by our feelings ...
605 665 Loth to believe what we so grieved to hear , For still we had hopes that pointed to the clouds , We questioned him again , and yet again ; But every word that from the peasant's lips Came in reply , translated by our feelings ...
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15 But when the melancholy fit shall fall Sudden from heaven like a weeping cloud , That fosters the droop - headed ... Think not of them , thou hast thy music too , While barred clouds bloom the soft - dying day , 25 And touch the ...
15 But when the melancholy fit shall fall Sudden from heaven like a weeping cloud , That fosters the droop - headed ... Think not of them , thou hast thy music too , While barred clouds bloom the soft - dying day , 25 And touch the ...
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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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