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 163
And now without redemption all mankind Must have been lost , adjudged to death and hell By doom severe , had not the Son of God , In whom the fullness dwells of love divine , 225 His dearest mediation thus renewed .
And now without redemption all mankind Must have been lost , adjudged to death and hell By doom severe , had not the Son of God , In whom the fullness dwells of love divine , 225 His dearest mediation thus renewed .
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Nor can this be , 395 But by fulfilling that which thou didst want , Obedience to the law of God , imposed On penalty of death , and suffering death ; The penalty to thy transgression due , And due to theirs which ...
Nor can this be , 395 But by fulfilling that which thou didst want , Obedience to the law of God , imposed On penalty of death , and suffering death ; The penalty to thy transgression due , And due to theirs which ...
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Thou art love's victim ; and must die A death more mystical and high . Into love's arms thou shalt let fall A still - surviving funeral . His is the dart must make the death Whose stroke shall taste thy hallowed breath ; A dart thrice ...
Thou art love's victim ; and must die A death more mystical and high . Into love's arms thou shalt let fall A still - surviving funeral . His is the dart must make the death Whose stroke shall taste thy hallowed breath ; A dart thrice ...
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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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