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 294
105 eyes the 120 With varying vanities , from ev'ry part , They shift the moving toyshop of their heart ; 100 Where wigs with wigs , with sword - knots sword - knots strive , Beaux banish beaux , and coaches coaches drive .
105 eyes the 120 With varying vanities , from ev'ry part , They shift the moving toyshop of their heart ; 100 Where wigs with wigs , with sword - knots sword - knots strive , Beaux banish beaux , and coaches coaches drive .
Page 300
While through the press enraged Thalestris flies , And scatters death around from both her eyes ; A beau and witling perished in the throng , One died in metaphor , and one in song , 60 " O cruel nymph ! a living death I bear , Cried ...
While through the press enraged Thalestris flies , And scatters death around from both her eyes ; A beau and witling perished in the throng , One died in metaphor , and one in song , 60 " O cruel nymph ! a living death I bear , Cried ...
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... The lustrous salvers in the moonlight gleam ; Broad golden fringe upon the carpet lies : It seemed he never , never could redeem From such a steadfast spell his lady's eyes ; So mused awhile , entoiled in woofèd phantasies .
... The lustrous salvers in the moonlight gleam ; Broad golden fringe upon the carpet lies : It seemed he never , never could redeem From such a steadfast spell his lady's eyes ; So mused awhile , entoiled in woofèd phantasies .
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Contents
12122 | 44 |
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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