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... Lord , whate'er shall be , Don't let anyone bomb me . Keep our Empire undismembered , Guide our Forces by Thy Hand , Gallant blacks from far Jamaica , Honduras and Togoland ; Protect them Lord in all their fights , And , even more ...
... Lord , whate'er shall be , Don't let anyone bomb me . Keep our Empire undismembered , Guide our Forces by Thy Hand , Gallant blacks from far Jamaica , Honduras and Togoland ; Protect them Lord in all their fights , And , even more ...
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... lord of life , send my roots rain . 5 ferny marshes 10 wild herb THOU ART INDEed just , Lord , IF I CONTEND . In the first two sentences of this poem , Hopkins translates the Latin quotation from the Vulgate Bible ( Jeremiah 12 : 1 ) ...
... lord of life , send my roots rain . 5 ferny marshes 10 wild herb THOU ART INDEed just , Lord , IF I CONTEND . In the first two sentences of this poem , Hopkins translates the Latin quotation from the Vulgate Bible ( Jeremiah 12 : 1 ) ...
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... Lord's poor , and so indeed is he called by benevolence perpetually — Poor Jeoffry ! poor Jeoffry ! the rat has bit thy throat . For I bless the name of the Lord Jesus that Jeoffry is better . For the divine spirit comes about his body ...
... Lord's poor , and so indeed is he called by benevolence perpetually — Poor Jeoffry ! poor Jeoffry ! the rat has bit thy throat . For I bless the name of the Lord Jesus that Jeoffry is better . For the divine spirit comes about his body ...
Contents
Reading a Poem | 1 |
NARRATIVE POETRY | 8 |
THE PERSON IN THE POEM | 19 |
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A. E. Housman alliteration aloud ballad beauty bird born called COMPARE connotations Copyright critic dark dead death dream E. E. Cummings Elegy Emily Dickinson English essay eyes Ezra Pound feel figures of speech flower Gerard Manley Hopkins haiku hand hear heart John Keats language light listen live look Lycidas lyric meaning metaphor meter Milton mind move myth never night open form paper pauses phrase play poem's poet poet's poetry prose QUESTIONS Randall Jarrell reader Reprinted by permission rhythm Richard Wilbur Robert Frost sense Shakespeare sing song sonnet soul sound spider stanza story suggestions sweet syllables symbol T. S. Eliot tell thee theme things Thomas thou thought translation tree University verse W. H. Auden Whitman William Butler Yeats William Carlos Williams wind words wrote York