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... faces are all gone , And the fret is on me . William Butler Yeats ( 1865-1939 ) THE LAMENTATION OF THE OLD PENSIONER ... face of Time That has transfigured me . 5 10 5 10 15 QUESTIONS 1. " The Old Pensioner " is this poem's first printed ...
... faces are all gone , And the fret is on me . William Butler Yeats ( 1865-1939 ) THE LAMENTATION OF THE OLD PENSIONER ... face of Time That has transfigured me . 5 10 5 10 15 QUESTIONS 1. " The Old Pensioner " is this poem's first printed ...
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... FACE ( about 1900 ) O Moon , when I gaze on thy beautiful face , Careering along through the boundaries of space , The thought has often come into my mind If I ever shall see thy glorious behind . O MOON . Sir Edmund Gosse , the English ...
... FACE ( about 1900 ) O Moon , when I gaze on thy beautiful face , Careering along through the boundaries of space , The thought has often come into my mind If I ever shall see thy glorious behind . O MOON . Sir Edmund Gosse , the English ...
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... FACE 1617 There is a garden in her face Where roses and white lilies grow ; A heav'nly paradise is that place Wherein all pleasant fruits do flow . There cherries grow which none may buy Till " Cherry - ripe " themselves do cry . Those ...
... FACE 1617 There is a garden in her face Where roses and white lilies grow ; A heav'nly paradise is that place Wherein all pleasant fruits do flow . There cherries grow which none may buy Till " Cherry - ripe " themselves do cry . Those ...
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