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... STAR - SPANGLED BANNER Oh , say , can you see , by the dawn's early light , What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming ? Whose broad stripes and bright stars , thro ' the perilous fight O'er the ramparts we watched were ...
... STAR - SPANGLED BANNER Oh , say , can you see , by the dawn's early light , What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming ? Whose broad stripes and bright stars , thro ' the perilous fight O'er the ramparts we watched were ...
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... stars uncrowns his majesty , Planting his steadfast footsteps in the sea , Making the heaven of heavens his dwelling - place , Spares but the cloudy border of his base To the foil'd searching of mortality : And thou , who didst the stars ...
... stars uncrowns his majesty , Planting his steadfast footsteps in the sea , Making the heaven of heavens his dwelling - place , Spares but the cloudy border of his base To the foil'd searching of mortality : And thou , who didst the stars ...
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... stars And stars hung under a sea And a sun far off in a shell of silence Dapples my walls for me ... It is morning , Senlin says , and in the morning Should I not pause in the light to remember God ? Upright and firm I stand on a star ...
... stars And stars hung under a sea And a sun far off in a shell of silence Dapples my walls for me ... It is morning , Senlin says , and in the morning Should I not pause in the light to remember God ? Upright and firm I stand on a star ...
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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