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Page 303
... in the " sestet " roll Back to the deeps of Life's tumultuous sea . Theodore Watts - Dunton ( 1836-1914 ) CHAPTER VIII THE OLD FRENCH AND OTHER FIXED FORMS Give THE SONNET 303 Watts-Dunton, Theodore: "The Sonnet's Voice"
... in the " sestet " roll Back to the deeps of Life's tumultuous sea . Theodore Watts - Dunton ( 1836-1914 ) CHAPTER VIII THE OLD FRENCH AND OTHER FIXED FORMS Give THE SONNET 303 Watts-Dunton, Theodore: "The Sonnet's Voice"
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... voice of Love , And like a wild - wood nightingale he sang Who thought in crabbèd lays to ease his heart . It is not told if her untoward heart Was melted by her poet's lyric woe , Or if in vain so amorously he sang . Perchance through ...
... voice of Love , And like a wild - wood nightingale he sang Who thought in crabbèd lays to ease his heart . It is not told if her untoward heart Was melted by her poet's lyric woe , Or if in vain so amorously he sang . Perchance through ...
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... voice calling me From the little wood whose branches lean Over the restless water- I heard , half - dreaming that I heard The voice of some enchanted bird ; And glancing back , among the green I saw my little daughter . From " The Voice ...
... voice calling me From the little wood whose branches lean Over the restless water- I heard , half - dreaming that I heard The voice of some enchanted bird ; And glancing back , among the green I saw my little daughter . From " The Voice ...
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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