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... sweet Afton , among thy green braes , Flow gently , I'll sing thee a song in thy praise ; My Mary's asleep by thy murmuring stream , Flow gently , sweet Afton , disturb not her dream . Thou stock - dove whose echo resounds thro ' the ...
... sweet Afton , among thy green braes , Flow gently , I'll sing thee a song in thy praise ; My Mary's asleep by thy murmuring stream , Flow gently , sweet Afton , disturb not her dream . Thou stock - dove whose echo resounds thro ' the ...
Page 55
... as musical as " Crossing the Bar , " but it has been wedded by Barnby to an air which fits it admirably . The song is one of the most beautiful lullabies in the lan- guage . SWEET AND LOW Sweet and low , sweet and low THE SONG 55.
... as musical as " Crossing the Bar , " but it has been wedded by Barnby to an air which fits it admirably . The song is one of the most beautiful lullabies in the lan- guage . SWEET AND LOW Sweet and low , sweet and low THE SONG 55.
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... Sweet and low , sweet and low . 56 Sweet sounds , O beautiful music , do not cease ! 299 Swiftly walk o'er the western wave ... 54 Swing low , sweet chariot . 28 Take up the White Man's burden . 124 Tell me now in what hidden way is ...
... Sweet and low , sweet and low . 56 Sweet sounds , O beautiful music , do not cease ! 299 Swiftly walk o'er the western wave ... 54 Swing low , sweet chariot . 28 Take up the White Man's burden . 124 Tell me now in what hidden way is ...
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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