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... move ; ' Twere profanation of our joys To tell the laity our love . Men reckon what it did and meant ; Moving of th ' earth brings harms and fears ; 5 .earthquake 10 But trepidation of the spheres , Though greater far , is innocent ...
... move ; ' Twere profanation of our joys To tell the laity our love . Men reckon what it did and meant ; Moving of th ' earth brings harms and fears ; 5 .earthquake 10 But trepidation of the spheres , Though greater far , is innocent ...
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X. J. Kennedy. THOM GUNN ( b . 1929 ) On the Move " Man , you gotta Go . " The blue jay scuffling in the bushes ... moves with an uncertain violence Under the dust thrown by a baffled sense Or the dull thunder of approximate words . On ...
X. J. Kennedy. THOM GUNN ( b . 1929 ) On the Move " Man , you gotta Go . " The blue jay scuffling in the bushes ... moves with an uncertain violence Under the dust thrown by a baffled sense Or the dull thunder of approximate words . On ...
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... moves upon silence . That the topless towers be burnt And men recall that face , Move most gently if move you must In this lonely place . She thinks , part woman , three parts a child , That nobody looks ; her feet Practice a tinker ...
... moves upon silence . That the topless towers be burnt And men recall that face , Move most gently if move you must In this lonely place . She thinks , part woman , three parts a child , That nobody looks ; her feet Practice a tinker ...
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