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Page 80
... leaves has never known , The weariness , the fever , and the fret Here , where men sit and hear each other groan ; Where palsy shakes a few , sad , last grey hairs , Where youth grows pale , and specter - thin , and dies ; Where but to ...
... leaves has never known , The weariness , the fever , and the fret Here , where men sit and hear each other groan ; Where palsy shakes a few , sad , last grey hairs , Where youth grows pale , and specter - thin , and dies ; Where but to ...
Page 259
... leaves , Are shaken with earth's old and weary cry . The Sorrow of Love ( 1939 text ) The brawling of a sparrow in the eaves , The brilliant moon and all the milky sky , And all that famous harmony of leaves , Had blotted out man's ...
... leaves , Are shaken with earth's old and weary cry . The Sorrow of Love ( 1939 text ) The brawling of a sparrow in the eaves , The brilliant moon and all the milky sky , And all that famous harmony of leaves , Had blotted out man's ...
Page 321
... leaves , nor ever bid the Spring adieu ; And , happy melodist , unwearièd , For ever piping songs for ever new ... leaves a heart high - sorrowful and cloyed , A burning forehead , and a parching tongue . Who are these coming to the ...
... leaves , nor ever bid the Spring adieu ; And , happy melodist , unwearièd , For ever piping songs for ever new ... leaves a heart high - sorrowful and cloyed , A burning forehead , and a parching tongue . Who are these coming to the ...
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