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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a 650 660 Of Ternate and Tidore , whence merchants bring Their spicy drugs ; they on the trading flood , 640 Through the wide Ethiopian to the Cape , Ply stemming nightly toward the pole : so seemed Far off the flying fiend .
a 650 660 Of Ternate and Tidore , whence merchants bring Their spicy drugs ; they on the trading flood , 640 Through the wide Ethiopian to the Cape , Ply stemming nightly toward the pole : so seemed Far off the flying fiend .
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... choice regard From Paneas , the fount of Jordan's flood , 535 To Beersaba , where the Holy Land Borders on Egypt and the Arabian shore ; So wide the opening seemed , where bounds were set To darkness , such as bound the ocean wave .
... choice regard From Paneas , the fount of Jordan's flood , 535 To Beersaba , where the Holy Land Borders on Egypt and the Arabian shore ; So wide the opening seemed , where bounds were set To darkness , such as bound the ocean wave .
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Deeds of eternal fame 240 Were done , but infinite ; for wide was spread That war and various ; sometimes on firm ground A standing fight , then , soaring on main wing , Tormented all the air ; all air seemed then Conflicting fire .
Deeds of eternal fame 240 Were done , but infinite ; for wide was spread That war and various ; sometimes on firm ground A standing fight , then , soaring on main wing , Tormented all the air ; all air seemed then Conflicting fire .
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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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