An Introduction to Poetry |
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... trees ' Loveliest of trees , the cherry now Is hung with bloom along the bough , And stands about the woodland ride ... tree in the woods has white blossoms . I am twenty , my life is passing . I expect to live the average life - span ...
... trees ' Loveliest of trees , the cherry now Is hung with bloom along the bough , And stands about the woodland ride ... tree in the woods has white blossoms . I am twenty , my life is passing . I expect to live the average life - span ...
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... Tree at My Window Tree at my window , window tree , My sash is lowered when night comes on ; But let there never be curtain drawn Between you and me . Vague dream - head lifted out of the ground , And thing next most diffuse to cloud ...
... Tree at My Window Tree at my window , window tree , My sash is lowered when night comes on ; But let there never be curtain drawn Between you and me . Vague dream - head lifted out of the ground , And thing next most diffuse to cloud ...
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... trees keep murmuring- Ah , wherefore murmur ye As in the old days long gone by , Green oak and poplar tree ! The well ... tree My chair was nearest to the fire In every company That talked of love or politics , Ere Time transfigured me ...
... trees keep murmuring- Ah , wherefore murmur ye As in the old days long gone by , Green oak and poplar tree ! The well ... tree My chair was nearest to the fire In every company That talked of love or politics , Ere Time transfigured me ...
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