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... sweet Athy , Hurroo ! Hurroo ! While going the road to sweet Athy , Hurroo ! Hurroo ! While going the road to sweet Athy , A stick in my hand and a drop in my eye , A doleful damsel I heard cry : " Och , Johnny , I hardly knew ye ...
... sweet Athy , Hurroo ! Hurroo ! While going the road to sweet Athy , Hurroo ! Hurroo ! While going the road to sweet Athy , A stick in my hand and a drop in my eye , A doleful damsel I heard cry : " Och , Johnny , I hardly knew ye ...
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... Sweet lovers love the spring . Between the acres of the rye , With a hey , and a ho , and a hey nonny no , These pretty country fools would lie , In spring time , the only pretty ring time , When birds do sing , hey ding a ding a ding : ...
... Sweet lovers love the spring . Between the acres of the rye , With a hey , and a ho , and a hey nonny no , These pretty country fools would lie , In spring time , the only pretty ring time , When birds do sing , hey ding a ding a ding : ...
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... Sweet apples , anthosmial , divine , From the ruby - rimmed beryline buckets , Star - gemmed , lily - shaped , hyaline : Like the sweet golden goblet found growing On the wild emerald cucumber - tree , Rich , brilliant , like ...
... Sweet apples , anthosmial , divine , From the ruby - rimmed beryline buckets , Star - gemmed , lily - shaped , hyaline : Like the sweet golden goblet found growing On the wild emerald cucumber - tree , Rich , brilliant , like ...
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