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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Now day is done , and night is nighing fast . Now bring the bride into the bridal bow'rs . The night is come , now soon her disarray , 300 And in her bed her lay ; Lay her in lilies and in violets , And silken curtains over her display ...
Now day is done , and night is nighing fast . Now bring the bride into the bridal bow'rs . The night is come , now soon her disarray , 300 And in her bed her lay ; Lay her in lilies and in violets , And silken curtains over her display ...
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645 650 Those blossoms also , and those dropping gums , 630 That lie bestrown , unsightly and unsmooth , Ask riddance , if we mean to tread with ease ; Meanwhile , as Nature wills , night bids us rest . ' To whom thus Eve , with perfect ...
645 650 Those blossoms also , and those dropping gums , 630 That lie bestrown , unsightly and unsmooth , Ask riddance , if we mean to tread with ease ; Meanwhile , as Nature wills , night bids us rest . ' To whom thus Eve , with perfect ...
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WINTHROP MACKWORTH PRAED GOOD - NIGHT TO THE SEASON Good - night to the Season ! – the rages Led off by the chiefs of the throng , The Lady Matilda's new pages , The Lady Eliza's new song ; Miss Fennel's macaw , which at Boodle's Is ...
WINTHROP MACKWORTH PRAED GOOD - NIGHT TO THE SEASON Good - night to the Season ! – the rages Led off by the chiefs of the throng , The Lady Matilda's new pages , The Lady Eliza's new song ; Miss Fennel's macaw , which at Boodle's Is ...
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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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