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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The palm - play , where , despoiled for the game , With dazèd eye oft we by gleams of love Have missed the ball and got sight of our dame To bait her eyes which kept the leads above ; 15 The gravelled ground , with sleeves tied on the ...
The palm - play , where , despoiled for the game , With dazèd eye oft we by gleams of love Have missed the ball and got sight of our dame To bait her eyes which kept the leads above ; 15 The gravelled ground , with sleeves tied on the ...
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This is thy province , this thy wondrous way , New humours to invent for each new play : This is that boasted bias of thy mind , By which one ... Leave writing plays , and choose for thy command Some peaceful province in Acrostic Land .
This is thy province , this thy wondrous way , New humours to invent for each new play : This is that boasted bias of thy mind , By which one ... Leave writing plays , and choose for thy command Some peaceful province in Acrostic Land .
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40 ' Then come home , my children , the sun is gone down And the dews of night arise ; 6 Come , come , leave off play , and let us away Till the morning appears in the skies . ' “ And now beside thee , bleating Lamb , I can lie down and ...
40 ' Then come home , my children , the sun is gone down And the dews of night arise ; 6 Come , come , leave off play , and let us away Till the morning appears in the skies . ' “ And now beside thee , bleating Lamb , I can lie down and ...
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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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