A Poetry PrimerRinehart, 1935 - 92 pages |
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Page 65
... O'er Idalia's velvet - green The rosy - crowned Loves are seen On Cytherea's day ; With antic Sport , and blue - eyed Pleasures , Frisking light in frolic measures ; Now pursuing , now retreating , Now in circling troops they meet : To ...
... O'er Idalia's velvet - green The rosy - crowned Loves are seen On Cytherea's day ; With antic Sport , and blue - eyed Pleasures , Frisking light in frolic measures ; Now pursuing , now retreating , Now in circling troops they meet : To ...
Page 67
... o'er the fields of glory bear Two coursers of ethereal race , With necks in thunder cloth'd , and long - resounding pace . III , 3 Hark , his hands the lyre explore ! Bright - eyed Fancy , hov'ring o'er , Scatters from her pictur'd urn ...
... o'er the fields of glory bear Two coursers of ethereal race , With necks in thunder cloth'd , and long - resounding pace . III , 3 Hark , his hands the lyre explore ! Bright - eyed Fancy , hov'ring o'er , Scatters from her pictur'd urn ...
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... O'er - worn and soiled . Or do my eyes misrepresent ? Can this be he , That heroic , that renowned , Irresistible Samson ? whom , unarmed , No strength of man , or fiercest wild beast , could withstand ; Who tore the lion as the lion ...
... O'er - worn and soiled . Or do my eyes misrepresent ? Can this be he , That heroic , that renowned , Irresistible Samson ? whom , unarmed , No strength of man , or fiercest wild beast , could withstand ; Who tore the lion as the lion ...
Contents
PREFACE CHAPTER I THE POET | 1 |
THE NATURE AND USES OF POETRY | 4 |
THE LANGUAGE OF POETRY | 13 |
Copyright | |
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abab accent anapest antistrophe basic foot beauty birds blank verse Browning's called catalexis century cesura common consonants couplet Cowleyan dactyl death doth drama edited 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 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 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