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 81
To leave the rest , all liked me passing well , I clinged her naked body , down she fell , Judge you the rest : being tired she bade me kiss , Jove send me more such afternoons as this . 25 SO WELL I love thee as without thee I Love ...
To leave the rest , all liked me passing well , I clinged her naked body , down she fell , Judge you the rest : being tired she bade me kiss , Jove send me more such afternoons as this . 25 SO WELL I love thee as without thee I Love ...
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165 15 My face in thine eye , thine in mine appears , And true plain hearts do in the faces rest ; Where can we find two better hemispheres Without sharp North , without declining West ? Whatever dies was not mixed equally ; If our two ...
165 15 My face in thine eye , thine in mine appears , And true plain hearts do in the faces rest ; Where can we find two better hemispheres Without sharp North , without declining West ? Whatever dies was not mixed equally ; If our two ...
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From rest and sleep , which but thy pictures be , Much pleasure , then from thee much more must flow ; And soonest our best men with thee do go , Rest of their bones , and souls ' delivery . Thou art slave to fate , chance , kings , and ...
From rest and sleep , which but thy pictures be , Much pleasure , then from thee much more must flow ; And soonest our best men with thee do go , Rest of their bones , and souls ' delivery . Thou art slave to fate , chance , kings , and ...
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User Review - johnbratby - LibraryThingA comprehensive survey of the best poetry writtten in English, ranging across seven centuries from Chaucer to Heaney. Lightly annotated with clear explanations - one of the major advantages of this ... Read full review
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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