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... hear lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore ; While I stand on the roadway , or on the pavements gray , I hear it in the deep heart's core . William Butler Yeats ( 1865- ) THE WEST WIND It's a warm wind , the west wind , full ...
... hear lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore ; While I stand on the roadway , or on the pavements gray , I hear it in the deep heart's core . William Butler Yeats ( 1865- ) THE WEST WIND It's a warm wind , the west wind , full ...
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... hear the Echoes through the mountains throng , The Winds come to me from the fields of sleep , And all the earth is gay ; Land and sea Give themselves up to jollity , And with the heart of May Doth every Beast keep holiday ; — Thou ...
... hear the Echoes through the mountains throng , The Winds come to me from the fields of sleep , And all the earth is gay ; Land and sea Give themselves up to jollity , And with the heart of May Doth every Beast keep holiday ; — Thou ...
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... Hear the yarn of a sailor , An old yarn learned at sea . In the grey of the coming on of night She dropped the tug at the Tuskar Light , ' N ' the topsails went to the topmast head To a chorus that fairly awoke the dead . She trimmed ...
... Hear the yarn of a sailor , An old yarn learned at sea . In the grey of the coming on of night She dropped the tug at the Tuskar Light , ' N ' the topsails went to the topmast head To a chorus that fairly awoke the dead . She trimmed ...
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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