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 409
From hour to hour We sate and sate , wondering , as if the night Had been ensnared by witchcraft . ... with unintelligible voice , The widely parted hours ; the noise of streams , And sometimes rustling motions nigh at hand , That did ...
From hour to hour We sate and sate , wondering , as if the night Had been ensnared by witchcraft . ... with unintelligible voice , The widely parted hours ; the noise of streams , And sometimes rustling motions nigh at hand , That did ...
Page 528
SONG 35 5 A SPIRIT haunts the year's last hours Dwelling amid these yellowing bowers : To himself he talks ... 10 33 15 40 The air is damp , and hushed , and close , As a sick man's room when he taketh repose An hour before death ...
SONG 35 5 A SPIRIT haunts the year's last hours Dwelling amid these yellowing bowers : To himself he talks ... 10 33 15 40 The air is damp , and hushed , and close , As a sick man's room when he taketh repose An hour before death ...
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30 At the violet hour , when the eyes and back Turn upward from the desk , when the human engine waits Like a taxi throbbing waiting , I Tiresias , though blind , throbbing between two lives , Old man with wrinkled female breasts ...
30 At the violet hour , when the eyes and back Turn upward from the desk , when the human engine waits Like a taxi throbbing waiting , I Tiresias , though blind , throbbing between two lives , Old man with wrinkled female breasts ...
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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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