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... live , and now my life is done . My tale was heard , and yet it was not told , My fruit is fall'n , and yet my leaves are green , My youth is spent , and yet I am not old , I saw the world , and yet I was not seen : My thread is cut ...
... live , and now my life is done . My tale was heard , and yet it was not told , My fruit is fall'n , and yet my leaves are green , My youth is spent , and yet I am not old , I saw the world , and yet I was not seen : My thread is cut ...
Page 260
... thou canst not find , That heart I'll give to thee . 4 ( earlier version ) 8 1 " Dramatis Personae , 1896-1902 , " in The Autobiography of William Butler Yeats ( New York , 1953 ) . B. Bid me to live , and I will live.
... thou canst not find , That heart I'll give to thee . 4 ( earlier version ) 8 1 " Dramatis Personae , 1896-1902 , " in The Autobiography of William Butler Yeats ( New York , 1953 ) . B. Bid me to live , and I will live.
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... live with me and be my love , And we will all the pleasures prove That valleys , groves , hills , and fields , Woods ... live with me and be my love . The shepherds ' swains shall dance and sing For thy delight each May morning . If ...
... live with me and be my love , And we will all the pleasures prove That valleys , groves , hills , and fields , Woods ... live with me and be my love . The shepherds ' swains shall dance and sing For thy delight each May morning . If ...
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