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... COMES FROM ART , NOT CHANCE True Ease in Writing comes from Art , not Chance , As those move easiest who have learned to dance . ' Tis not enough no Harshness gives Offence , The Sound must seem an Echo to the Sense . Soft is the strain ...
... COMES FROM ART , NOT CHANCE True Ease in Writing comes from Art , not Chance , As those move easiest who have learned to dance . ' Tis not enough no Harshness gives Offence , The Sound must seem an Echo to the Sense . Soft is the strain ...
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X. J. Kennedy. Emily Dickinson ( 1830-1886 ) * VICTORY COMES LATE Victory comes late - And is held low to freezing lips - Too rapt with frost To take it - How sweet it would have tasted Just a Drop- Was God so economical ? His Table's ...
X. J. Kennedy. Emily Dickinson ( 1830-1886 ) * VICTORY COMES LATE Victory comes late - And is held low to freezing lips - Too rapt with frost To take it - How sweet it would have tasted Just a Drop- Was God so economical ? His Table's ...
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X. J. Kennedy. I wish you the daily forgiveness of each other . For war comes in from the World and puzzles a darling ... Come to your Wedding Song . 15 20 Gwendolyn Brooks ( b . 1917 ) * THE RITES FOR COUSIN VIT Carried her unprotesting ...
X. J. Kennedy. I wish you the daily forgiveness of each other . For war comes in from the World and puzzles a darling ... Come to your Wedding Song . 15 20 Gwendolyn Brooks ( b . 1917 ) * THE RITES FOR COUSIN VIT Carried her unprotesting ...
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