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 454
And they all dead did lie : And a thousand thousand slimy things Lived on ; and so did I. ' Within the shadow of the ship I watched their rich attire : Blue , glossy green , and velvet black , They coiled and swam ; and every track Was ...
And they all dead did lie : And a thousand thousand slimy things Lived on ; and so did I. ' Within the shadow of the ship I watched their rich attire : Blue , glossy green , and velvet black , They coiled and swam ; and every track Was ...
Page 551
But there rings on a sudden a passionate cry , There is some one dying or dead , And a sullen thunder is rolled ; For a tumult shakes the city , And I wake , my dream is fled ; In the shuddering dawn , behold , Without knowledge ...
But there rings on a sudden a passionate cry , There is some one dying or dead , And a sullen thunder is rolled ; For a tumult shakes the city , And I wake , my dream is fled ; In the shuddering dawn , behold , Without knowledge ...
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They left this dead with the older dead , Stretched at the cross roads . Burnt black by strange decay Their sinister faces lie , The lid over each eye , The grass and coloured clay More motion have than they , Joined to the great sunk ...
They left this dead with the older dead , Stretched at the cross roads . Burnt black by strange decay Their sinister faces lie , The lid over each eye , The grass and coloured clay More motion have than they , Joined to the great sunk ...
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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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