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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... hand in hand , with wandering steps and slow Through Eden took their solitary way . from Samson Agonistes O how comely it is and how reviving To the spirits of just men long oppressed , When God into the hands of their deliverer Puts ...
... hand in hand , with wandering steps and slow Through Eden took their solitary way . from Samson Agonistes O how comely it is and how reviving To the spirits of just men long oppressed , When God into the hands of their deliverer Puts ...
Page 145
... hand . Soon as the evening shades prevail , The moon takes up the wondrous tale , And nightly to the listening earth Repeats the story of her birth : Whilst all the stars that round her burn , And all the planets , in their turn ...
... hand . Soon as the evening shades prevail , The moon takes up the wondrous tale , And nightly to the listening earth Repeats the story of her birth : Whilst all the stars that round her burn , And all the planets , in their turn ...
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... Hand It was a hand . God looked at it and looked away . There was a coldness about his heart , as though the hand clasped it . As at the end of a dark tunnel , he saw cities the hand would build , engines that it would raze them with ...
... Hand It was a hand . God looked at it and looked away . There was a coldness about his heart , as though the hand clasped it . As at the end of a dark tunnel , he saw cities the hand would build , engines that it would raze them with ...
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ANONYMOUS 7TH10TH CENTURY | 1 |
ANONYMOUS 14TH CENTURY | 7 |
GEOFFREY CHAUCER c 13401400 | 14 |
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