The New Oxford Book of Christian VerseDonald Davie Oxford University Press, 1981 - 319 pages A treasury of some of the most beautiful and moving poems in the English language. In the introduction, the editor examines the vast variety and importance of Christian verse in English and American literature. |
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... Death , carved it of bright stone , laid in it the Bringer of victory , spent from the great struggle . They began to speak the grief - song , sad in the sinking light , then thought to set out homeward ; their hearts were sick to death ...
... Death , carved it of bright stone , laid in it the Bringer of victory , spent from the great struggle . They began to speak the grief - song , sad in the sinking light , then thought to set out homeward ; their hearts were sick to death ...
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... Death the Consequence of the Fall ) O wretched offspring ! O unhappy state Of all mankind , by me betrayed to fate ! Born , through my crime , to be offenders first ; And , for those sins they could not shun , accurst . Why is life ...
... Death the Consequence of the Fall ) O wretched offspring ! O unhappy state Of all mankind , by me betrayed to fate ! Born , through my crime , to be offenders first ; And , for those sins they could not shun , accurst . Why is life ...
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... Death easy There is a land of pure delight Where saints immortal reign ; Infinite day excludes the night , And pleasures banish pain . There everlasting spring abides , And never - withering flowers : Death like a narrow sea divides ...
... Death easy There is a land of pure delight Where saints immortal reign ; Infinite day excludes the night , And pleasures banish pain . There everlasting spring abides , And never - withering flowers : Death like a narrow sea divides ...
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ANONYMOUS 7TH10TH CENTURY | 1 |
ANONYMOUS 14TH CENTURY | 7 |
GEOFFREY CHAUCER c 13401400 | 14 |
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