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... mother call ; I cast thee by as one unfit for light , Thy visage was so irksome in my sight ; Yet being mine own , at length affection would Thy blemishes amend , if so I could : I washed thy face , but more defects I saw , And rubbing ...
... mother call ; I cast thee by as one unfit for light , Thy visage was so irksome in my sight ; Yet being mine own , at length affection would Thy blemishes amend , if so I could : I washed thy face , but more defects I saw , And rubbing ...
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... MOTHER , I CANNOT MIND MY WHeel Mother , I cannot mind my wheel ; My fingers ache , my lips are dry : Oh ! if you felt the pain I feel ! But oh , who ever felt as I ! No longer could I doubt him true , All other men may use deceit ; He ...
... MOTHER , I CANNOT MIND MY WHeel Mother , I cannot mind my wheel ; My fingers ache , my lips are dry : Oh ! if you felt the pain I feel ! But oh , who ever felt as I ! No longer could I doubt him true , All other men may use deceit ; He ...
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... mother bore me in the southern wild , And I am black , but O ! my soul is white ; White as an angel is the English child , But I am black , as if bereaved of light . My mother taught me underneath a tree , And sitting down before the ...
... mother bore me in the southern wild , And I am black , but O ! my soul is white ; White as an angel is the English child , But I am black , as if bereaved of light . My mother taught me underneath a tree , And sitting down before the ...
Contents
Entrances | 1 |
Figures of Speech | 2 |
The Person in the Poem | 8 |
Copyright | |
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A. E. Housman Alexander Pope alliteration anthology attitude ballad bird Blake blue called cesura concrete Concrete poetry connotations couplet dance dark dead death denotation diction dream E. E. Cummings Eliot Emily Dickinson English eyes feel figures of speech following poem Frankie Gerard Manley Hopkins green hear heart Hurroo iambic imagery irony John Johnny kiss lady language light live look Lycidas lyric meaning metaphor meter Milton's mind myth never night open form paraphrase pattern pauses phrase poem aloud poet poet's poetry Pope prose QUESTIONS reader rhythm Robert Frost simile sing song sonnet sound speak speaker stanza stresses suggest sweet syllables symbol T. S. Eliot tell thee theme thing Thomas thou thought tone tree usually verse W. H. Auden Whitman William William Butler Yeats William Carlos Williams wind Wordsworth write Yeats