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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125 80 130 But listen and I shall you tell , A chance in Fairy that befell , Which certainly may please some well ; In love and arms delighting : Of Oberon that jealous grew , Of one of his own fairy crew , Too well ( he feared ) his ...
125 80 130 But listen and I shall you tell , A chance in Fairy that befell , Which certainly may please some well ; In love and arms delighting : Of Oberon that jealous grew , Of one of his own fairy crew , Too well ( he feared ) his ...
Page 249
The stag now conscious of his fatal growth , At once indulgent to his fear and sloth , To some dark covert his retreat had made , Where nor man's eye . nor heaven's should invade His soft repose ; when th'unexpected sound Of dogs ...
The stag now conscious of his fatal growth , At once indulgent to his fear and sloth , To some dark covert his retreat had made , Where nor man's eye . nor heaven's should invade His soft repose ; when th'unexpected sound Of dogs ...
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For hunger or for love they fight and tear , Whilst wretched man is still in arms for fear . 140 For fear he arms , and is of arms afraid , By fear , to fear , successively betrayed ; Base fear , the source whence his best passions came ...
For hunger or for love they fight and tear , Whilst wretched man is still in arms for fear . 140 For fear he arms , and is of arms afraid , By fear , to fear , successively betrayed ; Base fear , the source whence his best passions came ...
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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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