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Page 359
... night , As I saw you had something to tell as you bent to me night after night , As you droop'd from the sky low down as if to my side , ( while the other stars all look'd on , ) As we wander'd together the solemn night , ( for ...
... night , As I saw you had something to tell as you bent to me night after night , As you droop'd from the sky low down as if to my side , ( while the other stars all look'd on , ) As we wander'd together the solemn night , ( for ...
Page 363
... night . The night in silence under many a star , The ocean shore and the husky whispering wave whose voice I know , And the soul turning to thee O vast and well - veil'd death , And the body gratefully nestling close to thee . Over the ...
... night . The night in silence under many a star , The ocean shore and the husky whispering wave whose voice I know , And the soul turning to thee O vast and well - veil'd death , And the body gratefully nestling close to thee . Over the ...
Page 364
... night , Sadly sinking and fainting , as warning and warning , and yet again bursting with joy , Covering the earth and filling the spread of the heaven , As that powerful psalm in the night I heard from recesses , Passing , I leave thee ...
... night , Sadly sinking and fainting , as warning and warning , and yet again bursting with joy , Covering the earth and filling the spread of the heaven , As that powerful psalm in the night I heard from recesses , Passing , I leave thee ...
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