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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Eftsoons the nymphs , which now had flowers their fill , 55 Ran all in haste to see that silver brood As they came ... Yet were they bred of summer's heat they say , In sweetest season , when each flower and weed The earth did fresh ...
Eftsoons the nymphs , which now had flowers their fill , 55 Ran all in haste to see that silver brood As they came ... Yet were they bred of summer's heat they say , In sweetest season , when each flower and weed The earth did fresh ...
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45 These are thy wonders , Lord of love , To make us see we are but flowers that glide ; Which when we once can find and prove ... THE PULLEY : 5 span : a measure , extent 8 made a stay : halted THE FLOWER THE FLOWER : 3 demean ...
45 These are thy wonders , Lord of love , To make us see we are but flowers that glide ; Which when we once can find and prove ... THE PULLEY : 5 span : a measure , extent 8 made a stay : halted THE FLOWER THE FLOWER : 3 demean ...
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40 THE FLOWERS OF THE FOREST I've heard them lilting , at the ewe milking , Lasses a ' lilting , before dawn of day ; But now they are moaning , on ilka green loaning ; The flowers of the forest are a ' wede awae .
40 THE FLOWERS OF THE FOREST I've heard them lilting , at the ewe milking , Lasses a ' lilting , before dawn of day ; But now they are moaning , on ilka green loaning ; The flowers of the forest are a ' wede awae .
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Contents
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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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