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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HIS GOLDEN LOCKS TIME HATH TO SILVER TURNED ' : 4 youth waneth by increasing : youth is diminished by increasing age 18 ... From THE MIRROR FOR MAGISTRATES 15 ' And with such luck and loss I will content myself , Till tides of turning ...
HIS GOLDEN LOCKS TIME HATH TO SILVER TURNED ' : 4 youth waneth by increasing : youth is diminished by increasing age 18 ... From THE MIRROR FOR MAGISTRATES 15 ' And with such luck and loss I will content myself , Till tides of turning ...
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35 10 Among thy mountains did I feel The joy of my desire ; And she I cherished turned her wheel Beside an English fire . At day - break on a hill they stood That overlooked the moor ; And thence they saw the bridge of wood , A furlong ...
35 10 Among thy mountains did I feel The joy of my desire ; And she I cherished turned her wheel Beside an English fire . At day - break on a hill they stood That overlooked the moor ; And thence they saw the bridge of wood , A furlong ...
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... and by reasonings false From their beginnings , inasmuch as drawn Out of a heart that had been turned aside 290 From Nature's way by outward accidents , And which was thus confounded , more and more Misguided , and misguiding .
... and by reasonings false From their beginnings , inasmuch as drawn Out of a heart that had been turned aside 290 From Nature's way by outward accidents , And which was thus confounded , more and more Misguided , and misguiding .
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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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