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Page 560
... Human Abstract Pity would be no more If we did not make somebody Poor ; And Mercy no more could be If all were as happy as we . And mutual fear brings peace , Till the selfish loves increase ; Then Cruelty knits a snare , And spreads ...
... Human Abstract Pity would be no more If we did not make somebody Poor ; And Mercy no more could be If all were as happy as we . And mutual fear brings peace , Till the selfish loves increase ; Then Cruelty knits a snare , And spreads ...
Page 604
... human eyes whose suffering accuses you , whose hatred reaches through the swill of dark to strike you like a leper's claw . You cannot stare that hatred down or chain the fear that stalks the watches and breathes on you its fetid ...
... human eyes whose suffering accuses you , whose hatred reaches through the swill of dark to strike you like a leper's claw . You cannot stare that hatred down or chain the fear that stalks the watches and breathes on you its fetid ...
Page 613
... human nature for their choice of subjects and imagery ? We raise the ques- tion here but will not attempt to answer it categorically . Some have said , however , that the mechanical things which man himself can make , he can understand ...
... human nature for their choice of subjects and imagery ? We raise the ques- tion here but will not attempt to answer it categorically . Some have said , however , that the mechanical things which man himself can make , he can understand ...
Contents
The Art of Reading Poetry 383 | 383 |
Versification 638 | 391 |
Transition to Poetry | 392 |
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A. E. HOUSMAN ANDREW MARVELL beauty birds boughs bright brown clouds cold cried dark dead death doth dream e. e. cummings earth elegy Euroclydon eyes fair fall fear feel fire flowers Goddamm gone grass green Gwendolyn Brooks hair hand happy hath hear heard heart heaven hill king Lady Langston Hughes leaves light live lonely lonnë look LOUIS MACNEICE Lycidas meaning mind Miniver moon morning mountains never night pale Patrick Spence poem poet poetry praise Prufrock rhyme round sang sigh silent sing sleep Slim snow song SONNET Sonnet 23 soul sound stanza stars sweet T. E. HULME T. S. Eliot tell thee things thou thought tree turn verse voice W. H. AUDEN walk weep WILLIAM WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS wind wings word Yeats young