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... Beauty is but a flower Which wrinkles will devour ; Brightness falls from the air , Queens have died young and fair , Dust hath closed Helen's eye . I am sick , I must die : Lord , have mercy on us ! In these lines by Thomas Nashe , the ...
... Beauty is but a flower Which wrinkles will devour ; Brightness falls from the air , Queens have died young and fair , Dust hath closed Helen's eye . I am sick , I must die : Lord , have mercy on us ! In these lines by Thomas Nashe , the ...
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... Beauty wayward , but requires More delicacy from her squires . Tell me , my witless , whose one boast Could be your staunchness at the post , When were you made a man of parts To think fine and profess the arts ? Will many - gifted Beauty ...
... Beauty wayward , but requires More delicacy from her squires . Tell me , my witless , whose one boast Could be your staunchness at the post , When were you made a man of parts To think fine and profess the arts ? Will many - gifted Beauty ...
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... BEAUTY ( 1877 ) Glory be to God for dappled things - For skies of couple - color as a brinded cow ; For rose - moles all in stipple upon trout that swim ; Fresh - firecoal chestnut - falls ; finches ' wings ; - Landscape plotted and ...
... BEAUTY ( 1877 ) Glory be to God for dappled things - For skies of couple - color as a brinded cow ; For rose - moles all in stipple upon trout that swim ; Fresh - firecoal chestnut - falls ; finches ' wings ; - Landscape plotted and ...
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