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Page 90
... Flower in the Crannied Wall Flower in the crannied wall , I pluck you out of the crannies , I hold you here , root and all , in my hand , Little flower but if I could understand ― - What you are , root and all , and all in all , I ...
... Flower in the Crannied Wall Flower in the crannied wall , I pluck you out of the crannies , I hold you here , root and all , in my hand , Little flower but if I could understand ― - What you are , root and all , and all in all , I ...
Page 147
... flowers , Fall grief in showers ; Our beauties are not ours ; Oh , I could still , Like melting snow upon some craggy hill , Drop , drop , drop , drop , Since nature's pride is now a withered daffodil . QUESTIONS a part in a song 5 10 1 ...
... flowers , Fall grief in showers ; Our beauties are not ours ; Oh , I could still , Like melting snow upon some craggy hill , Drop , drop , drop , drop , Since nature's pride is now a withered daffodil . QUESTIONS a part in a song 5 10 1 ...
Page 308
... flower like a froth , And dead wings carried like a paper kite . What had that flower to do with being white , The wayside blue and innocent heal - all ? What brought the kindred spider to that height , Then steered the white moth ...
... flower like a froth , And dead wings carried like a paper kite . What had that flower to do with being white , The wayside blue and innocent heal - all ? What brought the kindred spider to that height , Then steered the white moth ...
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