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Page 343
... bird , to caress and kick the bird , that now snaps and flaps its wings savagely whenever the door is opened . How the boy trembles and delights at the sight of the white excrement of the bird ! How the bird leaps and rushes against the ...
... bird , to caress and kick the bird , that now snaps and flaps its wings savagely whenever the door is opened . How the boy trembles and delights at the sight of the white excrement of the bird ! How the bird leaps and rushes against the ...
Page 362
... bird I know receiv'd us comrades three , And he sang the carol of death , and a verse for him I love . From deep secluded recesses , From the fragrant cedars and the ghostly pines so still , Came the carol of the bird . And the charm of ...
... bird I know receiv'd us comrades three , And he sang the carol of death , and a verse for him I love . From deep secluded recesses , From the fragrant cedars and the ghostly pines so still , Came the carol of the bird . And the charm of ...
Page 364
... bird , And the tallying chant , the echo arous'd in my soul , With the lustrous and drooping star with the countenance full of woe , With the holders holding my hand nearing the call of the bird , Comrades mine and I in the midst , and ...
... bird , And the tallying chant , the echo arous'd in my soul , With the lustrous and drooping star with the countenance full of woe , With the holders holding my hand nearing the call of the bird , Comrades mine and I in the midst , and ...
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