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Page 113
... begin to tinkle ; TV sets Have been turned on . The moon is brimming like a glass of beer Above the town , And love keeps her appointments " I'll be right down . " " Harry's here ! " 8 But the pale stranger in the furnished room Lies on ...
... begin to tinkle ; TV sets Have been turned on . The moon is brimming like a glass of beer Above the town , And love keeps her appointments " I'll be right down . " " Harry's here ! " 8 But the pale stranger in the furnished room Lies on ...
Page 187
... begin With paper offerings . They release from sin The catechumens on the couches lying In visions , testimonies , prophesying : Not , " Are you saved ? " they ask , but in informal Insistent query , " Brother , are you normal ...
... begin With paper offerings . They release from sin The catechumens on the couches lying In visions , testimonies , prophesying : Not , " Are you saved ? " they ask , but in informal Insistent query , " Brother , are you normal ...
Page 304
... begin To spit out all the butt - ends of my days and ways ? And how should I presume ? And I have known the arms already , known them all Arms that are braceleted and white and bare ( But in the lamplight , downed with light brown hair ...
... begin To spit out all the butt - ends of my days and ways ? And how should I presume ? And I have known the arms already , known them all Arms that are braceleted and white and bare ( But in the lamplight , downed with light brown hair ...
Common terms and phrases
A. E. HOUSMAN alliteration aloud attitude ballad beauty bird Blake breath called child connotations dark dead dear death diction doth E. E. Cummings earth Eliot Emily Dickinson English eyes face feel figures of speech flowers GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS green hand hath hear heart heaven Hurroo iambic iambic pentameter J. V. CUNNINGHAM John Johnny kind leaves light live look Lord meaning metaphor meter Milton mind moon mother myth never night o'er paraphrase pattern pleasure poem's poet poet's poetry prose QUESTIONS reader reading reprinted rhythm rime Robert Frost Robert Lowell simile sing sleep song sonnet soul sound speaker stanza star stress suggests sweet syllables symbol T. S. Eliot tell thee theme things Thomas thou thought tone tree verse W. H. Auden WILLIAM WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS wind words Wordsworth Yeats