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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Full of this whim was thoughtful Madeline : The music , vearning like a god in pain , She scarcely heard : her maiden eves divine , Fixed on the floor , saw many a sweeping train Pass by – she heeded not at all : in vain Came many a tip ...
Full of this whim was thoughtful Madeline : The music , vearning like a god in pain , She scarcely heard : her maiden eves divine , Fixed on the floor , saw many a sweeping train Pass by – she heeded not at all : in vain Came many a tip ...
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My hair was over in the grass , My naked ears heard the day pass . 125 10 My eyes , wide open , had the run Of some ten weeds to fix upon ; Among those few , out of the sun , The woodspurge flowered , three cups in one .
My hair was over in the grass , My naked ears heard the day pass . 125 10 My eyes , wide open , had the run Of some ten weeds to fix upon ; Among those few , out of the sun , The woodspurge flowered , three cups in one .
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a Norfolk sprang thee , Lambeth holds thee dead 34 Not a drum was heard , not a funeral note 482 Not every man has gentians in his house 630 Not marble , nor the gilded monuments 92 Not mine own fears , nor the prophetic soul 95 Not yet ...
a Norfolk sprang thee , Lambeth holds thee dead 34 Not a drum was heard , not a funeral note 482 Not every man has gentians in his house 630 Not marble , nor the gilded monuments 92 Not mine own fears , nor the prophetic soul 95 Not yet ...
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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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