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... thou roam ; In critics ' hands beware thou dost not come ; And take thy way where yet thou are not known . If for thy Father asked , say thou had'st none ; And for thy Mother , she alas is poor , Which caused her thus to send thee out ...
... thou roam ; In critics ' hands beware thou dost not come ; And take thy way where yet thou are not known . If for thy Father asked , say thou had'st none ; And for thy Mother , she alas is poor , Which caused her thus to send thee out ...
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... Thou art indeed just , Lord , if I contend With thee ; but , sir , so what I plead is just . Why do sinners ' ways prosper ? and why must Disappointment all I endeavor end ? Wert thou my enemy , O thou my friend , How wouldst thou worse ...
... Thou art indeed just , Lord , if I contend With thee ; but , sir , so what I plead is just . Why do sinners ' ways prosper ? and why must Disappointment all I endeavor end ? Wert thou my enemy , O thou my friend , How wouldst thou worse ...
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... thou mayst in me behold When yellow leaves , or none , or few , do hang Upon those boughs which shake against the cold , Bare ruined choirs where late the sweet birds sang . In me thou see'st the twilight of such day As after sunset ...
... thou mayst in me behold When yellow leaves , or none , or few , do hang Upon those boughs which shake against the cold , Bare ruined choirs where late the sweet birds sang . In me thou see'st the twilight of such day As after sunset ...
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