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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25 30 ROBERT HERRICK DELIGHT IN DISORDER up 35 Come , my Corinna , come ; and coming , mark How each field turns a street , each street a park Made green and trimmed with trees ! See how Devotion gives each house a bough Or branch !
25 30 ROBERT HERRICK DELIGHT IN DISORDER up 35 Come , my Corinna , come ; and coming , mark How each field turns a street , each street a park Made green and trimmed with trees ! See how Devotion gives each house a bough Or branch !
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20 HOLY THURSDAY Sweet Smiles , in the night Hover over my delight ; Sweet Smiles , Mother's smiles , All the livelong night beguiles . ' Twas on a Holy Thursday , their innocent faces clean , The children walking two and two , in red ...
20 HOLY THURSDAY Sweet Smiles , in the night Hover over my delight ; Sweet Smiles , Mother's smiles , All the livelong night beguiles . ' Twas on a Holy Thursday , their innocent faces clean , The children walking two and two , in red ...
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165 210 a Half the night I waste in sighs , Half in dreams I sorrow after The delight of early skies ; In a wakeful doze I sorrow For the hand , the lips , the eyes , For the meeting of the morrow , The delight of happy laughter ...
165 210 a Half the night I waste in sighs , Half in dreams I sorrow after The delight of early skies ; In a wakeful doze I sorrow For the hand , the lips , the eyes , For the meeting of the morrow , The delight of happy laughter ...
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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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