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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I can no more but tell how there is seen Fair Ilium fall in burning red gledes down , 90 And from the soil great Troy , Neptunus ' town . [ Induction , stanzas 56-68 ] 50 But Troy , alas ! methought , above them all , It made mine eyes ...
I can no more but tell how there is seen Fair Ilium fall in burning red gledes down , 90 And from the soil great Troy , Neptunus ' town . [ Induction , stanzas 56-68 ] 50 But Troy , alas ! methought , above them all , It made mine eyes ...
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The finding of these things , The spiteful heart of Daedalus with such a malice stings , 130 That headlong from the holy tow'r of Pallas down he threw His nephew , feigning him to fall by chance , which was not true .
The finding of these things , The spiteful heart of Daedalus with such a malice stings , 130 That headlong from the holy tow'r of Pallas down he threw His nephew , feigning him to fall by chance , which was not true .
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155 105 And easily transgress the sole command , Sole pledge of his obedience : So will fall 95 He and his faithless progeny : Whose fault ? Whose but his own ? ingrate , he had of me All he could have ; I made him just and right ...
155 105 And easily transgress the sole command , Sole pledge of his obedience : So will fall 95 He and his faithless progeny : Whose fault ? Whose but his own ? ingrate , he had of me All he could have ; I made him just and right ...
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Thomas Traherne 163774 | 74 |
Thomas Campion 15671620 | 98 |
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| 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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