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... hear , I hear , with joy I hear ! ( Wordsworth ) You may turn this passage into prose if you will , but there still will remain the details which give the poet's reason for ex- periencing joy . The rhythm of the verse seems but the ...
... hear , I hear , with joy I hear ! ( Wordsworth ) You may turn this passage into prose if you will , but there still will remain the details which give the poet's reason for ex- periencing joy . The rhythm of the verse seems but the ...
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... hear no song . I hear Only the blunt seeds growing secretly In the dark entrails of the preparate earth , The rustle of the cricket under the leaf , The creaking of the cold wheel of the stars . " Bind my white bones together - hollow ...
... hear no song . I hear Only the blunt seeds growing secretly In the dark entrails of the preparate earth , The rustle of the cricket under the leaf , The creaking of the cold wheel of the stars . " Bind my white bones together - hollow ...
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... hear , oh hear ! d II ( swift air's ( wide sky's Thou on whose stream , ' mid the steep sky's commotion ( like earth's decaying leaves Loose clouds and whirlwinds clothed in mists are shed , ( like deluges of dust ( Shook from Heaven's ...
... hear , oh hear ! d II ( swift air's ( wide sky's Thou on whose stream , ' mid the steep sky's commotion ( like earth's decaying leaves Loose clouds and whirlwinds clothed in mists are shed , ( like deluges of dust ( Shook from Heaven's ...
Contents
ENRICHMENT | 16 |
POETRY AND PROSE | 33 |
THE MECHANICS OF POETRY | 49 |
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