The New Oxford Book of Seventeenth Century VerseAlastair Fowler Oxford University Press, 1991 - 831 pages The seventeenth century saw some of the great achievements in the English language. Milton wrote Paradise Lost, Donne composed his Metaphysical verse, and Shakespeare his late Romances, not to mention the work of Dryden, Marvell, Jonson, and many others. Now, this remarkable quantity of extraordinary literature has been brought together here in one large volume. Like the previous edition, all of the best known works are present, but this new edition also responds to considerable changes in scholarship and perspective in recent years. Popular and minor poets take a place alongside their more well known peers. Alastair Fowler, the collection's distinguished editor, has included a generous portion of poetry by women, as well as a sampling of American colonial verse, while also striking a balance between Metaphysical and Jonsonian poetry. |
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Page 147
... shine . THE TURN And shine as you exalted are ; Two names of friendship , but one star : Of hearts the union . And those not by chance Made , or indentured , or leased out to advance The profits for a time . No pleasures vain did chime ...
... shine . THE TURN And shine as you exalted are ; Two names of friendship , but one star : Of hearts the union . And those not by chance Made , or indentured , or leased out to advance The profits for a time . No pleasures vain did chime ...
Page 315
... shine as gladly As frost - nipped suns look sadly . Then we will sing , and shine all our own day , And one another pay : His beams shall cheer my breast , and both so twine , Till ev'n his beams sing , and my music shine . The World ...
... shine as gladly As frost - nipped suns look sadly . Then we will sing , and shine all our own day , And one another pay : His beams shall cheer my breast , and both so twine , Till ev'n his beams sing , and my music shine . The World ...
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... shine . How hast thou pencilled out , my Lord , most bright Thy glorious image here , on Joseph's light . This I bewail in me under this shine To see so dull a colour in my skin . Lord , lay thy brightsome colours on me thine . Scour ...
... shine . How hast thou pencilled out , my Lord , most bright Thy glorious image here , on Joseph's light . This I bewail in me under this shine To see so dull a colour in my skin . Lord , lay thy brightsome colours on me thine . Scour ...
Contents
Introduction | xxxvii |
Acknowledgements | xlv |
ANNE HOWARD? 15571630 | 10 |
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