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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225 Thus Belial , with words clothed in reason's garb , Counselled ignoble ease and peaceful sloth , Not peace ; and after him thus Mammon spake : * Either to disenthrone the King of Heaven We war , if war be best , or to regain Our own ...
225 Thus Belial , with words clothed in reason's garb , Counselled ignoble ease and peaceful sloth , Not peace ; and after him thus Mammon spake : * Either to disenthrone the King of Heaven We war , if war be best , or to regain Our own ...
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a 386 a Thy merits ; under thee , as head supreme , Thrones , princedoms , powers , dominions , I reduce : All knees to thee shall bow , of them that bide 321 In heaven , or earth , or under earth in hell .
a 386 a Thy merits ; under thee , as head supreme , Thrones , princedoms , powers , dominions , I reduce : All knees to thee shall bow , of them that bide 321 In heaven , or earth , or under earth in hell .
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10 15 20 880 Drove them before him thunder - struck , pursued With terrors , and with furies , to the bounds And crystal wall of heaven ; which , op'ning wide , 860 Rolled inward , and a spacious gap disclosed Into the wasteful deep .
10 15 20 880 Drove them before him thunder - struck , pursued With terrors , and with furies , to the bounds And crystal wall of heaven ; which , op'ning wide , 860 Rolled inward , and a spacious gap disclosed Into the wasteful deep .
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Thomas Traherne 163774 | 74 |
Thomas Campion 15671620 | 98 |
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| 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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