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... things dimly comprehended can be quite touching , and it is very true that what is vague and indefinite has a charm for youth . ' There should be nothing , then , in this book which a lover of poetry will ever cast aside , and within ...
... things dimly comprehended can be quite touching , and it is very true that what is vague and indefinite has a charm for youth . ' There should be nothing , then , in this book which a lover of poetry will ever cast aside , and within ...
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... things of the same sort . Now this association , which is so strong for inferior things , is equally strong for the best ; and though an early attach- ment may but seldom develop into adult judgment , yet in the absence of that rare ...
... things of the same sort . Now this association , which is so strong for inferior things , is equally strong for the best ; and though an early attach- ment may but seldom develop into adult judgment , yet in the absence of that rare ...
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... things are to be assured , a schooling for all in the main or mother dialect is imperative . And yet it has seemed to me that a lamentable dis- ruption of our speech , which would eventually rob the British race of their noblest ...
... things are to be assured , a schooling for all in the main or mother dialect is imperative . And yet it has seemed to me that a lamentable dis- ruption of our speech , which would eventually rob the British race of their noblest ...
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... thing that pretty is , My lady sweet , arise ; Arise , arise ! Shakespeare . Song on May Morning Now the bright morning Star , Day's harbinger , Comes dancing from the East , and leads with her The Flowery May , who from her green lap ...
... thing that pretty is , My lady sweet , arise ; Arise , arise ! Shakespeare . Song on May Morning Now the bright morning Star , Day's harbinger , Comes dancing from the East , and leads with her The Flowery May , who from her green lap ...
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... thing that heard him play , Even the billows of the sea , Hung their heads and then lay by . In sweet music is such art , Killing care and grief of heart Fall asleep , or hearing die . Shakespeare . 7 Spring SPRING , the sweet Spring ...
... thing that heard him play , Even the billows of the sea , Hung their heads and then lay by . In sweet music is such art , Killing care and grief of heart Fall asleep , or hearing die . Shakespeare . 7 Spring SPRING , the sweet Spring ...
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A. E. Housman auld auld lang syne beauty beneath birds blow breath bright Burns calm Cassius cloud cold dark dead dear death deep delight doth dread dream earth echoing Green eyes fair Farewell flowers glory grave green hand happy hast hath head hear heard heart heaven Henry Newbolt hill John Anderson king Kirconnell land Laurence Binyon leaves light live lonely Lord loud Lycidas maun Milton mist moon morning never night o'er pain pale peace Plymouth Hoe poem QUINQUEREME rest Ring round seem'd Shakespeare Shelley ship shore silent sing sleep song sorrow soul sound spirit Spring stanza stars stream sweet syne tears thee thine things thou art thought tree True Thomas Twas voice W. B. Yeats W. H. Davies waves weary wild wind wings woods youth