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... keep the rest , But keep them with repining restlessness ; Let him be rich and weary , that at least , If goodness lead him not , yet weariness May toss him to My breast . 5 100 10 15 20 20 To sum up : figures of speech are not to be ...
... keep the rest , But keep them with repining restlessness ; Let him be rich and weary , that at least , If goodness lead him not , yet weariness May toss him to My breast . 5 100 10 15 20 20 To sum up : figures of speech are not to be ...
Page 228
... keep us , all devotion , at your knees . Forgetting your coffee spreading on our flannel , Your lipstick grinning on our coat , So gayly in love's unbreakable heaven Our souls on glory of spilt bourbon float . Be with me , darling ...
... keep us , all devotion , at your knees . Forgetting your coffee spreading on our flannel , Your lipstick grinning on our coat , So gayly in love's unbreakable heaven Our souls on glory of spilt bourbon float . Be with me , darling ...
Page 364
... keep and all , retrievements out of the night , The song , the wondrous chant of the gray - brown bird , And the tallying chant , the echo arous'd in my soul , With the lustrous and drooping star with the countenance full of woe , With ...
... keep and all , retrievements out of the night , The song , the wondrous chant of the gray - brown bird , And the tallying chant , the echo arous'd in my soul , With the lustrous and drooping star with the countenance full of woe , With ...
Common terms and phrases
A. E. HOUSMAN alliteration aloud attitude ballad beauty bird Blake breath called child connotations dark dead dear death diction doth E. E. Cummings earth Eliot Emily Dickinson English eyes face feel figures of speech flowers GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS green hand hath hear heart heaven Hurroo iambic iambic pentameter J. V. CUNNINGHAM John Johnny kind leaves light live look Lord meaning metaphor meter Milton mind moon mother myth never night o'er paraphrase pattern pleasure poem's poet poet's poetry prose QUESTIONS reader reading reprinted rhythm rime Robert Frost Robert Lowell simile sing sleep song sonnet soul sound speaker stanza star stress suggests sweet syllables symbol T. S. Eliot tell thee theme things Thomas thou thought tone tree verse W. H. Auden WILLIAM WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS wind words Wordsworth Yeats