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 59
Tell men of high condition , That manage the estate , Their purpose is ambition , Their practice only hate : And if they once reply , Then give them all the lie . 25 SIR WALTER RALEGH Tell them that brave it most , They beg for more by ...
Tell men of high condition , That manage the estate , Their purpose is ambition , Their practice only hate : And if they once reply , Then give them all the lie . 25 SIR WALTER RALEGH Tell them that brave it most , They beg for more by ...
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25 Lay thy bow of pearl apart , And thy crystal - shining quiver ; Give unto the flying hart 15 Space to breathe , how short soever : Thou that mak'st a day of night , Goddess excellently bright . [ From Cynthia's Revels ] ' QU'EEN AND ...
25 Lay thy bow of pearl apart , And thy crystal - shining quiver ; Give unto the flying hart 15 Space to breathe , how short soever : Thou that mak'st a day of night , Goddess excellently bright . [ From Cynthia's Revels ] ' QU'EEN AND ...
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The subjects armed , the more their princes gave , Th'advantage only took the more to crave . Till kings by giving , give themselves away , And even that power , that should deny , betray . ' Who gives constrained , but his own fear ...
The subjects armed , the more their princes gave , Th'advantage only took the more to crave . Till kings by giving , give themselves away , And even that power , that should deny , betray . ' Who gives constrained , but his own fear ...
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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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