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And they all dead did lie : And a thousand thousand slimy things and did I. He despiseth the creatures of the calm . a Lived on ; SO And envieth that they should live , and so many lie dead , I looked upon the rotting sea , And drew my ...
And they all dead did lie : And a thousand thousand slimy things and did I. He despiseth the creatures of the calm . a Lived on ; SO And envieth that they should live , and so many lie dead , I looked upon the rotting sea , And drew my ...
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Wild Six weeks our guardsman walked the yard , In the suit of shabby gray : His cricket cap was on his head , And his step seemed light and gay , But I never saw a man who looked So wistfully at the day . a eye I never saw a man who ...
Wild Six weeks our guardsman walked the yard , In the suit of shabby gray : His cricket cap was on his head , And his step seemed light and gay , But I never saw a man who looked So wistfully at the day . a eye I never saw a man who ...
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To Paul The hollow looked too sound and clean and empty Ever to have housed birds or beasts or bees . There was no entrance for them to get in by . It looked to him like some new kind of hollow He thought he'd better take his jack ...
To Paul The hollow looked too sound and clean and empty Ever to have housed birds or beasts or bees . There was no entrance for them to get in by . It looked to him like some new kind of hollow He thought he'd better take his jack ...
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Contents
GEOFFREY CHAUCER 1340?1400 | 1 |
ROBERT HENRYSON c 14301506 | 7 |
ANONYMOUS | 15 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | The Penguin Book of Narrative Verse Part 49 of Penguin poets |
| Editor | David Herbert |
| Compiled by | David Herbert |
| Publisher | Penguin Books, 1960 |
| Length | 462 pages |
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