A Poetry PrimerFarrar & Rinehart, incorporated, 1935 - 92 pages |
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... heart is like a singing bird Whose nest is in a watered shoot ; My heart is like an apple - tree Whose boughs are bent with thickset fruit ; My heart is like a rainbow shell That paddles in a halcyon sea ; My heart is gladder than all ...
... heart is like a singing bird Whose nest is in a watered shoot ; My heart is like an apple - tree Whose boughs are bent with thickset fruit ; My heart is like a rainbow shell That paddles in a halcyon sea ; My heart is gladder than all ...
Page 70
... heart of May Doth every beast keep holiday ; — Thou Child of Joy Shout round me , let me hear thy shouts , thou happy Shepherd - boy ! IV Ye blessed Creatures , I have heard the call Ye to each other make ; I see The heavens laugh with ...
... heart of May Doth every beast keep holiday ; — Thou Child of Joy Shout round me , let me hear thy shouts , thou happy Shepherd - boy ! IV Ye blessed Creatures , I have heard the call Ye to each other make ; I see The heavens laugh with ...
Page 85
... heart might moralize ? Or is it only a sweet slumber Stealing o'er sensation , Which the breath of roseate morning Chaseth into darkness ? Will Ianthe wake again , And give that faithful bosom joy Whose sleepless spirit waits to catch ...
... heart might moralize ? Or is it only a sweet slumber Stealing o'er sensation , Which the breath of roseate morning Chaseth into darkness ? Will Ianthe wake again , And give that faithful bosom joy Whose sleepless spirit waits to catch ...
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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