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... Thou sleep'st too long , thou art beguiled . My darling dear , my daisy flower , Let me , quod he , lie in your lap . Lie still , quod she , my paramour , Lie still hardily ° , and take a nap . His head was heavy , such was his hap ...
... Thou sleep'st too long , thou art beguiled . My darling dear , my daisy flower , Let me , quod he , lie in your lap . Lie still , quod she , my paramour , Lie still hardily ° , and take a nap . His head was heavy , such was his hap ...
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... Thou foster - child of silence and slow time , Sylvan historian , who canst thus express A flowery tale more sweetly ... thou canst not leave Thy song , nor ever can those trees be bare ; Bold Lover , never , never canst thou kiss ...
... Thou foster - child of silence and slow time , Sylvan historian , who canst thus express A flowery tale more sweetly ... thou canst not leave Thy song , nor ever can those trees be bare ; Bold Lover , never , never canst thou kiss ...
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... thou mayst in me behold ' roads 5 cool ( as by skimming or stirring ) That time of year thou mayst in me behold When yellow leaves , or none , or few , do hang Upon those boughs which shake against the cold , Bare ruined choirs where ...
... thou mayst in me behold ' roads 5 cool ( as by skimming or stirring ) That time of year thou mayst in me behold When yellow leaves , or none , or few , do hang Upon those boughs which shake against the cold , Bare ruined choirs where ...
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