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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incensed Belinda cried , And drew a deadly bodkin from her side . ( The same , his ancient personage to deck , Her great - great - grandsire wore about his neck , 90 In three seal - rings ; which after , melted down , Formed a vast ...
incensed Belinda cried , And drew a deadly bodkin from her side . ( The same , his ancient personage to deck , Her great - great - grandsire wore about his neck , 90 In three seal - rings ; which after , melted down , Formed a vast ...
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... And sallying forth , we journeyed side by side , 325 Bound to the distant Alps . A hardy slight Did this unprecedented course imply Of college studies and their set rewards ; Nor had , in truth , the scheme been formed by me Without ...
... And sallying forth , we journeyed side by side , 325 Bound to the distant Alps . A hardy slight Did this unprecedented course imply Of college studies and their set rewards ; Nor had , in truth , the scheme been formed by me Without ...
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The latest dream I ever dreamed On the cold hill side . 35 And they are gone : aye , ages long ago 370 These lovers fled away into the storm . That night the baron dreamt of many a woe , And all his warrior - guests , with shade and ...
The latest dream I ever dreamed On the cold hill side . 35 And they are gone : aye , ages long ago 370 These lovers fled away into the storm . That night the baron dreamt of many a woe , And all his warrior - guests , with shade and ...
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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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