A Poetry PrimerFarrar & Rinehart, incorporated, 1935 - 92 pages |
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... hath clad the hill , and eke the vale : The nightingale with feathers new she sings ; The turtle to her mate hath told her tale ; Summer is come , for every spray now springs , The hart hath hung his old head on the pale ; The buck in ...
... hath clad the hill , and eke the vale : The nightingale with feathers new she sings ; The turtle to her mate hath told her tale ; Summer is come , for every spray now springs , The hart hath hung his old head on the pale ; The buck in ...
Page 70
... hath passed away a glory from the earth . III Now , while the birds thus sing a joyous song , And while the young lambs bound As to the tabor's sound , To me alone there came a thought of grief : A timely utterance gave that thought ...
... hath passed away a glory from the earth . III Now , while the birds thus sing a joyous song , And while the young lambs bound As to the tabor's sound , To me alone there came a thought of grief : A timely utterance gave that thought ...
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... hath in her own natural kind , And , even with something of a Mother's mind , And no unworthy aim , The homely Nurse doth all she can To make her Foster - child , her Inmate Man , Forget the glories he hath known , And that imperial ...
... hath in her own natural kind , And , even with something of a Mother's mind , And no unworthy aim , The homely Nurse doth all she can To make her Foster - child , her Inmate Man , Forget the glories he hath known , And that imperial ...
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abab accent anapest antistrophe basic foot beauty birds blank verse Browning's called catalexis century cesura CHAPTER common consonants couplet Cowleyan dactyl death doth drama elements emotion employed English poetry English verse envoy epode examples experience expression feeling feet free verse give Greek hath Heaven heroic epic iamb iambic pentameter ideas imagination important instance Italian form Keats language light lines LONGFELLOW love thee Lowell's lyric poetry matter Matthew Arnold metre metrical scheme Milton mind narrative poetry night o'er Paradise Lost pause person Pindar poem poet poetic popular ballad prose prosody qualities quatrain rhetorical rhythm rime-scheme riming words Robert Bridges Rose sense Shakespeare Shelley Shelley's sing song sonnet soul sounds Spenser's stanza stanzaic forms story stress strophe structure student sweet syllables rime TENNYSON tercet themes things thou thought tion trochaic trochee understanding unstressed syllables usually vowels W. B. Yeats Whitman's WORDSWORTH writing written