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 179
Ye mists and exhalations , that now rise 185 From hill or steaming lake , dusky or grey , Till the sun paint your fleecy skirts with gold , In honour to the world's great Author rise ; Whether to deck with clouds the uncoloured sky ...
Ye mists and exhalations , that now rise 185 From hill or steaming lake , dusky or grey , Till the sun paint your fleecy skirts with gold , In honour to the world's great Author rise ; Whether to deck with clouds the uncoloured sky ...
Page 202
Whether thus these things , or whether not ; But whether the sun , predominant in heaven , 160 Rise on the earth ; or earth rise on the sun ; He from the east his flaming road begin ; Or she from west her silent course advance ...
Whether thus these things , or whether not ; But whether the sun , predominant in heaven , 160 Rise on the earth ; or earth rise on the sun ; He from the east his flaming road begin ; Or she from west her silent course advance ...
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I fixed my eyes On the mid stream and saw the spirits rise : I saw my father on the water stand , And hold a thin pale boy in either hand ; And there they glided ghastly on the top Of the salt flood , and never touched a drop : I would ...
I fixed my eyes On the mid stream and saw the spirits rise : I saw my father on the water stand , And hold a thin pale boy in either hand ; And there they glided ghastly on the top Of the salt flood , and never touched a drop : I would ...
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Contents
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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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