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 44
Then I thy sovereign praises loud will sing , That all the woods shall answer , and their echo ring . Her modest eyes , abashed to behold So many gazers as on her do stare , 160 Upon the lowly ground affixed are ; Ne dare lift up her ...
Then I thy sovereign praises loud will sing , That all the woods shall answer , and their echo ring . Her modest eyes , abashed to behold So many gazers as on her do stare , 160 Upon the lowly ground affixed are ; Ne dare lift up her ...
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Crown ye god Bacchus with a coronal , And Hymen also crown with wreaths of vine ; And let the Graces dance unto the rest , For they can do it best : The whiles the maidens do their carol sing , To which the woods shall answer ...
Crown ye god Bacchus with a coronal , And Hymen also crown with wreaths of vine ; And let the Graces dance unto the rest , For they can do it best : The whiles the maidens do their carol sing , To which the woods shall answer ...
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Only the keeper sees That , where the ring - dove broods , And the badgers roll at ease , There was once a road through the woods . If you can fill the unforgiving minute With sixty seconds ' worth of distance run , Yours is the Earth ...
Only the keeper sees That , where the ring - dove broods , And the badgers roll at ease , There was once a road through the woods . If you can fill the unforgiving minute With sixty seconds ' worth of distance run , Yours is the Earth ...
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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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