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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GENTLY dip , but not too deep , For fear you make the golden beard to weep . Fair maiden , white and red , Comb me smooth , and stroke my head ; And thou shalt have some cockle bread . 5 25 Gently dip , but not too deep , For fear thou ...
GENTLY dip , but not too deep , For fear you make the golden beard to weep . Fair maiden , white and red , Comb me smooth , and stroke my head ; And thou shalt have some cockle bread . 5 25 Gently dip , but not too deep , For fear thou ...
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215 • “ Silence , ye troubled Waves , and thou Deep , peace , " watery calm Up hither , under long obedience tried ; And earth be changed to heaven , and heaven to earth , 160 One kingdom , joy and union without end .
215 • “ Silence , ye troubled Waves , and thou Deep , peace , " watery calm Up hither , under long obedience tried ; And earth be changed to heaven , and heaven to earth , 160 One kingdom , joy and union without end .
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25 Sleeping Lyca lay While the beasts of prey , Come from caverns deep , Viewed the maid asleep . Turning back was vain : Soon his heavy mane Bore them to the ground . Then he stalked around , The kingly lion stood And the virgin viewed ...
25 Sleeping Lyca lay While the beasts of prey , Come from caverns deep , Viewed the maid asleep . Turning back was vain : Soon his heavy mane Bore them to the ground . Then he stalked around , The kingly lion stood And the virgin viewed ...
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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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