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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HARK , ALL YOU LADIES THAT DO SLEEP ! 5 But my sun's heavenly eyes View not your weeping , That now lies sleeping Softly , now softly lies Sleeping . Hark , all you ladies that do sleep ! The fairy queen Proserpina Bids you awake ...
HARK , ALL YOU LADIES THAT DO SLEEP ! 5 But my sun's heavenly eyes View not your weeping , That now lies sleeping Softly , now softly lies Sleeping . Hark , all you ladies that do sleep ! The fairy queen Proserpina Bids you awake ...
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Sweet Sleep , with soft down Weave thy brows an infant crown . Sweet Sleep , angel mild , Hover o'er my happy child . And all must love the human form , In heathen , Turk , or Jew ; Where Mercy , Love , and Pity dwell There God is ...
Sweet Sleep , with soft down Weave thy brows an infant crown . Sweet Sleep , angel mild , Hover o'er my happy child . And all must love the human form , In heathen , Turk , or Jew ; Where Mercy , Love , and Pity dwell There God is ...
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85 40 you a And you with whom I shared an idyll 25 Five years long , Sleep beyond the Atlantic And wake to a glitter of dew and to bird - song . And you whose eyes are blue , whose ways are foam , Sleep quiet and smiling 30 And do not ...
85 40 you a And you with whom I shared an idyll 25 Five years long , Sleep beyond the Atlantic And wake to a glitter of dew and to bird - song . And you whose eyes are blue , whose ways are foam , Sleep quiet and smiling 30 And do not ...
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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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