The Poetry Cure: A Pocket Medicine Chest of VerseRobert Haven Schauffler Dodd, Mead, 1925 - 414 pages |
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... once that The Poetry Cure does not mean a cure for poetry , any more than " the rest cure " means a cure for rest , or than " the Keeley cure " means a cure for Keeley . An essay of mine called " The Musical Pharmacy " appeared fourteen ...
... once that The Poetry Cure does not mean a cure for poetry , any more than " the rest cure " means a cure for rest , or than " the Keeley cure " means a cure for Keeley . An essay of mine called " The Musical Pharmacy " appeared fourteen ...
Page xix
... once remarked : " I habitually convert whatever re- joices or worries or otherwise concerns me into a poem , and so get rid of it , and at once correct my conception of outward things and set my mind at rest . " William Blake was in the ...
... once remarked : " I habitually convert whatever re- joices or worries or otherwise concerns me into a poem , and so get rid of it , and at once correct my conception of outward things and set my mind at rest . " William Blake was in the ...
Page xx
... once the relieving rain has begun to fall , the poet admits- " My thoughts are dancing flowers And joyful singing birds . " . . an un- According to Ribot , the French psychologist , “ all invention presupposes a want , a craving ...
... once the relieving rain has begun to fall , the poet admits- " My thoughts are dancing flowers And joyful singing birds . " . . an un- According to Ribot , the French psychologist , “ all invention presupposes a want , a craving ...
Page xxiii
... once escaped on the wings of song from the dreariness of a petty , drab life of duns and domestic worry . One afternoon while he slept , his unconscious mind masterfully took charge . In a trice it built him , for immediate occupancy ...
... once escaped on the wings of song from the dreariness of a petty , drab life of duns and domestic worry . One afternoon while he slept , his unconscious mind masterfully took charge . In a trice it built him , for immediate occupancy ...
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... once so lov'd you , whom you lov'd so , -Pity me ? Oh to love so , be so lov'd , yet so mistaken ! What had I on earth to do With the slothful , with the mawkish , the unmanly ? Like the aimless , helpless , hopeless did I drivel -Being ...
... once so lov'd you , whom you lov'd so , -Pity me ? Oh to love so , be so lov'd , yet so mistaken ! What had I on earth to do With the slothful , with the mawkish , the unmanly ? Like the aimless , helpless , hopeless did I drivel -Being ...
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ALFRED TENNYSON Allons beauty beneath bird bliss blue Blynken breath bright CHRISTOPHER MORLEY dark dawn dear death deep Don John doth dream dust earth eyes face fear feet flowers gold grass green hair hand happy hath head hear heard heart heaven hills I'se JOHN KEATS JOHN MILTON John of Austria King laughing light lips live look Lord marsh marshes of Glynn mirth moon morning mother mountains never niggah night peace PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY POEMS rain riding river ROBERT HAVEN SCHAUFFLER ROBINSON JEFFERS rose round sail shadow shine silence silver sing skies sleep smile song sorrow soul spirit stars strong sweet tears thee thine things Thou art thought trees twas voice wave weary wild WILLIAM WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE WILLIAM WORDSWORTH wind wine wings woods