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... Sleep and rest , sleep and rest , Father will come to thee soon ; Rest , rest , on mother's breast , Father will come to thee soon ; Father will come to his babe in the nest , Silver sails all out of the west Under the silver moon ; Sleep ...
... Sleep and rest , sleep and rest , Father will come to thee soon ; Rest , rest , on mother's breast , Father will come to thee soon ; Father will come to his babe in the nest , Silver sails all out of the west Under the silver moon ; Sleep ...
Page 515
... Sleep the sleep that knows not breaking ; Dream of battled fields no more , Days of danger , nights of waking . In our isle's enchanted hall , Hands unseen thy couch are strewing , Fairy strains of music fall , Every sense in slumber ...
... Sleep the sleep that knows not breaking ; Dream of battled fields no more , Days of danger , nights of waking . In our isle's enchanted hall , Hands unseen thy couch are strewing , Fairy strains of music fall , Every sense in slumber ...
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... Sleep ! O Sleep , the Certain Knot of Peace , 286-287 . SILL , EDWARD ROWLAND , 424 ; poem quoted : Were There No Crowns on Earth , 425 . Since There's No Help , Come Let Us Kiss and Part ( Drayton ) , quoted , 282-283 . Sinclair ...
... Sleep ! O Sleep , the Certain Knot of Peace , 286-287 . SILL , EDWARD ROWLAND , 424 ; poem quoted : Were There No Crowns on Earth , 425 . Since There's No Help , Come Let Us Kiss and Part ( Drayton ) , quoted , 282-283 . Sinclair ...
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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