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... earth's surface and mass the same , Of all cosmos ' volume , and all stars as well . 5 Your rights reach down where all owners meet , in Hell's Pointed exclusive conclave , at earth's center ( Your spun farm's root still on that axis ...
... earth's surface and mass the same , Of all cosmos ' volume , and all stars as well . 5 Your rights reach down where all owners meet , in Hell's Pointed exclusive conclave , at earth's center ( Your spun farm's root still on that axis ...
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... earth ' Poor soul , the center of my sinful earth , [ . . . ] these rebel powers that thee array , Why dost thou pine within and suffer dearth , Painting thy outward walls so costly gay ? Why so large cost , having so short a lease ...
... earth ' Poor soul , the center of my sinful earth , [ . . . ] these rebel powers that thee array , Why dost thou pine within and suffer dearth , Painting thy outward walls so costly gay ? Why so large cost , having so short a lease ...
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... earth , and every common sight , To me did seem Apparelled in celestial light , The glory and the freshness of a dream . It is not now as it hath been of yore ; Turn wheresoe'er I may , By night or day , — The things which I have seen I ...
... earth , and every common sight , To me did seem Apparelled in celestial light , The glory and the freshness of a dream . It is not now as it hath been of yore ; Turn wheresoe'er I may , By night or day , — The things which I have seen I ...
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