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... never got fired , But satisfied his employers , Fudge Motors Inc. Yet he wasn't a scab or odd in his views , For his Union reports that he paid his dues , ( Our report on his Union shows it was sound ) And our Social Psychology workers ...
... never got fired , But satisfied his employers , Fudge Motors Inc. Yet he wasn't a scab or odd in his views , For his Union reports that he paid his dues , ( Our report on his Union shows it was sound ) And our Social Psychology workers ...
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... never did explain the joke That so amused him , lying there While the moon went down to disappear Along the still ... never laughed , being bashful . Lowering my head , I looked at the wall . Called to , a thousand times , I never looked ...
... never did explain the joke That so amused him , lying there While the moon went down to disappear Along the still ... never laughed , being bashful . Lowering my head , I looked at the wall . Called to , a thousand times , I never looked ...
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... never shaken ; It is the star to every wand'ring bark , the inconstant Whose worth's unknown , although his height be taken . Love's not Time's fool , though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come ; Love alters ...
... never shaken ; It is the star to every wand'ring bark , the inconstant Whose worth's unknown , although his height be taken . Love's not Time's fool , though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come ; Love alters ...
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