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Verse hath a middle nature ; heaven keeps souls , The grave keeps bodies , verse the fame enrolls . Satire III : On Religion Kind pity chokes my spleen ; brave scorn forbids Those tears to issue which swell my eyelids ; I must not laugh ...
Verse hath a middle nature ; heaven keeps souls , The grave keeps bodies , verse the fame enrolls . Satire III : On Religion Kind pity chokes my spleen ; brave scorn forbids Those tears to issue which swell my eyelids ; I must not laugh ...
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living stone , " as he wished ; in an artistry so perfect that it seems artless and in the exquisite simplicity of his verse he has attained enduring fame . His Prayer to Ben Jonson When I a verse shall make , Know I have prayed thee ...
living stone , " as he wished ; in an artistry so perfect that it seems artless and in the exquisite simplicity of his verse he has attained enduring fame . His Prayer to Ben Jonson When I a verse shall make , Know I have prayed thee ...
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Crashaw's single volume of poetry contains both his slender output of secular verse , The Delights of the Muses , and his religious verse , the Epigrammata Sacra and The Steps to the Temple . The former seems to have been produced ...
Crashaw's single volume of poetry contains both his slender output of secular verse , The Delights of the Muses , and his religious verse , the Epigrammata Sacra and The Steps to the Temple . The former seems to have been produced ...
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Contents
THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY IN ENGLAND | 1 |
JOHN DONNE | 21 |
BEN JONSON | 76 |
Copyright | |
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appear arms beauty body bright bring cause century court crown dead death divine Donne doth earth English eternal eyes face fair fall father fear fire flame flowers force friends gave give grace grow hand happy hast hath head heart heaven hope hour keep king land learned leave less light live London look Lord lost Milton mind move nature never night once peace play pleasure poems poetry poets praise rest rise round seems shine sight sing sleep Song soul spirit spring stand stars stay sweet tears tell thee thine things thou thought trees true turn unto verse winds wings write youth
Bibliographic information
| Title | English Poetry of the Seventeenth Century |
| Editor | Roberta Florence Brinkley |
| Edition | revised |
| Publisher | Norton, 1942 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 5 Feb 2007 |
| Length | 672 pages |
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