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... ( sleep wake hope and then ) they said their nevers they slept their dream stars rain sun moon ( and only the snow can begin to explain how children are apt to forget to remember with up so floating many bells down ) one day anyone died i ...
... ( sleep wake hope and then ) they said their nevers they slept their dream stars rain sun moon ( and only the snow can begin to explain how children are apt to forget to remember with up so floating many bells down ) one day anyone died i ...
Page 95
... sleep under a six - inch blanket of snow and I'll sleep under a half - inch blanket of unpoetical blanket material and we'll see which one keeps warm , And after that maybe you'll begin to comprehend dimly What I mean by too much ...
... sleep under a six - inch blanket of snow and I'll sleep under a half - inch blanket of unpoetical blanket material and we'll see which one keeps warm , And after that maybe you'll begin to comprehend dimly What I mean by too much ...
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... sleep , That of his love he took no keep ° , With hey , lullay , lullay , like a child , Thou sleep'st too long , thou art beguiled . With ba , ba , ba ! and bas ° , bas , bas ! She cherished him both cheek and chin , That he wist ...
... sleep , That of his love he took no keep ° , With hey , lullay , lullay , like a child , Thou sleep'st too long , thou art beguiled . With ba , ba , ba ! and bas ° , bas , bas ! She cherished him both cheek and chin , That he wist ...
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