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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5 15 METHINKS ' tis pretty sport to hear a child Rocking a word in mouth yet undefiled . The tender racket rudely plays the sound , Which weakly bandied cannot back rebound , And the soft air the softer roof doth kiss , With a sweet ...
5 15 METHINKS ' tis pretty sport to hear a child Rocking a word in mouth yet undefiled . The tender racket rudely plays the sound , Which weakly bandied cannot back rebound , And the soft air the softer roof doth kiss , With a sweet ...
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THE RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER The Wedding - Guest he beat his breast , Yet he cannot choose but hear ; And thus spake on that ancient man , The brighteyed Mariner . 40 PART ONE An ancient Mariner meeteth three Gallants bidden to a ...
THE RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER The Wedding - Guest he beat his breast , Yet he cannot choose but hear ; And thus spake on that ancient man , The brighteyed Mariner . 40 PART ONE An ancient Mariner meeteth three Gallants bidden to a ...
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... When the night - air cools on the trout - ringed pools 15 Where the otter whistles his mate , ( They fear not men in the woods , Because they see so few . ) You will hear the beat of a horse's feet , And the swish of a skirt in the ...
... When the night - air cools on the trout - ringed pools 15 Where the otter whistles his mate , ( They fear not men in the woods , Because they see so few . ) You will hear the beat of a horse's feet , And the swish of a skirt in the ...
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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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