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... live alone in the bee - loud glade . And I shall have some peace there , for peace comes dropping slow , Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings ; There midnight's all a glimmer , and noon a purple glow , 5 And ...
... live alone in the bee - loud glade . And I shall have some peace there , for peace comes dropping slow , Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings ; There midnight's all a glimmer , and noon a purple glow , 5 And ...
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... live , and now my life is done . My tale was heard , and yet it was not told , My fruit is fall'n , and yet my leaves are green , My youth is spent , and yet I am not old , I saw the world , and yet I was not seen : My thread is cut ...
... live , and now my life is done . My tale was heard , and yet it was not told , My fruit is fall'n , and yet my leaves are green , My youth is spent , and yet I am not old , I saw the world , and yet I was not seen : My thread is cut ...
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... LIVE - OAK GROWING I saw in Louisiana a live - oak growing , 1867 All alone stood it and the moss hung down from the branches , Without any companion it grew there uttering joyous leaves of dark green , And its look , rude , unbending ...
... LIVE - OAK GROWING I saw in Louisiana a live - oak growing , 1867 All alone stood it and the moss hung down from the branches , Without any companion it grew there uttering joyous leaves of dark green , And its look , rude , unbending ...
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