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... dream , at pleasure , Shall go forth and conquer a crown ; And three with a new song's measure Can trample a kingdom down . We , in the ages lying In the buried past of the earth , Built Nineveh with our sighing , And Babel itself in ...
... dream , at pleasure , Shall go forth and conquer a crown ; And three with a new song's measure Can trample a kingdom down . We , in the ages lying In the buried past of the earth , Built Nineveh with our sighing , And Babel itself in ...
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... dream'd - Ah ! woe betide ! The latest dream I ever dream'd On the cold hill's side . " I saw pale kings and princes too , Pale warriors , death - pale were they all ; They cried ' La Belle Dame sans Merci Hath thee in thrall ! ' " I ...
... dream'd - Ah ! woe betide ! The latest dream I ever dream'd On the cold hill's side . " I saw pale kings and princes too , Pale warriors , death - pale were they all ; They cried ' La Belle Dame sans Merci Hath thee in thrall ! ' " I ...
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... Dream of fighting fields no more ; Sleep the sleep that knows not breaking , Morn of toil , nor night of waking ... dreams . From " Thanatopsis , " by William Cullen Bryant 5 Grow old along with me ! The best is PASSAGES FOR SCANSION 515.
... Dream of fighting fields no more ; Sleep the sleep that knows not breaking , Morn of toil , nor night of waking ... dreams . From " Thanatopsis , " by William Cullen Bryant 5 Grow old along with me ! The best is PASSAGES FOR SCANSION 515.
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accented syllables Alfred Edward Housman alliteration anapestic ballad beauty birds blank verse Burns Cæsar's called Camelot century chapter couplet dactylic Danny Deever dark dead death dreams earth Edwin Arlington Robinson elegy English poetry eyes feet flowers following poem free verse glory gone gray hath hear heart heaven hills Hymn iambic pentameter John Keats Lady of Shalott land light lines living look Lord lyric melody meter metrical Milton moon never night o'er poet poetic prose quatrain quote reader rhythm rime Ring Robert Robert Frost romance rose Shakespeare silent sing sleep song sonnet soul sound stanza stars sung sweet Tennyson thee theme thine things thou thought trees trochaic wandering wave weary White Man's burden Whitman wild William William Butler Yeats wind words Wordsworth written wrote