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 343
Drop thy pipe , thy happy pipe ; Sing thy songs of happy cheer ' : So I sung the same again , While he wept with joy to hear . ' Piper , sit thee down and write In a book , that all may read . ' So he vanished from my sight , And I ...
Drop thy pipe , thy happy pipe ; Sing thy songs of happy cheer ' : So I sung the same again , While he wept with joy to hear . ' Piper , sit thee down and write In a book , that all may read . ' So he vanished from my sight , And I ...
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35 10 40 O brightest ! though too late for antique vows , Too , too late for the fond believing lyre , When holy were the haunted forest boughs , Holy the air , the water , and the fire ; Yet even in these days so far retired From happy ...
35 10 40 O brightest ! though too late for antique vows , Too , too late for the fond believing lyre , When holy were the haunted forest boughs , Holy the air , the water , and the fire ; Yet even in these days so far retired From happy ...
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580 535 17 Go not , happy day , From the shining fields , Go not , happy day , Till the maiden yields . Rosy is the West , Rosy is the South , Roses are her cheeks , And a rose her mouth When the happy Yes Falters from her lips ...
580 535 17 Go not , happy day , From the shining fields , Go not , happy day , Till the maiden yields . Rosy is the West , Rosy is the South , Roses are her cheeks , And a rose her mouth When the happy Yes Falters from her lips ...
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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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