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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Mother's wag , pretty boy , Father's sorrow , father's joy ; When thy father first did see Such a boy by him and me , He was glad , I was woe ; Fortune changed made him so , When he left his pretty boy , Last his sorrow , first his joy ...
Mother's wag , pretty boy , Father's sorrow , father's joy ; When thy father first did see Such a boy by him and me , He was glad , I was woe ; Fortune changed made him so , When he left his pretty boy , Last his sorrow , first his joy ...
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“ I'll tell you all , ' he said , ' the very day 290 When the old man first placed them in my way : My father's spirit – he who always tried To give me trouble , when he lived and died - When he was gone he could not be content To see ...
“ I'll tell you all , ' he said , ' the very day 290 When the old man first placed them in my way : My father's spirit – he who always tried To give me trouble , when he lived and died - When he was gone he could not be content To see ...
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FATHER ! Father ! where are you going ? Oh , do not walk so fast . Speak , Father , speak to your little boy , Or else I shall be lost . ' 5 THE BLOSSOM The night was dark , no father was there ...
FATHER ! Father ! where are you going ? Oh , do not walk so fast . Speak , Father , speak to your little boy , Or else I shall be lost . ' 5 THE BLOSSOM The night was dark , no father was there ...
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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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