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... morning " ? And how can he pin down his feelings about such a dangerously vague subject ? Perhaps " The beauty of the morning covered the City " ? " The City is very beautiful in the morning " ? His solution was the simile : This City ...
... morning " ? And how can he pin down his feelings about such a dangerously vague subject ? Perhaps " The beauty of the morning covered the City " ? " The City is very beautiful in the morning " ? His solution was the simile : This City ...
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... morning foreign shone , — A courteous , yet harrowing grace , As guest who'd restless grown . And thus , without a wing , Or service of a hull , Our summer made her light escape Into the beautiful . 3 10 10 15 [ B ] As Imperceptibly as ...
... morning foreign shone , — A courteous , yet harrowing grace , As guest who'd restless grown . And thus , without a wing , Or service of a hull , Our summer made her light escape Into the beautiful . 3 10 10 15 [ B ] As Imperceptibly as ...
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... Morning , 137-140 Suckling , Sir John , Song , 213 Sunday Morning ( Stevens ) , 137- 140 Surprised by Joy ( Wordsworth ) , 220-221 Swinburne , Charles Algernon : The Garden of Proserpine , 143-145 ; In Memory of Walter Savage Landor ...
... Morning , 137-140 Suckling , Sir John , Song , 213 Sunday Morning ( Stevens ) , 137- 140 Surprised by Joy ( Wordsworth ) , 220-221 Swinburne , Charles Algernon : The Garden of Proserpine , 143-145 ; In Memory of Walter Savage Landor ...
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ancient Mariner beauty bird blood breast breath child cloud cold context Copyright curse dark dead death doth dream E. E. Cummings earth example eyes fear feel flowers hair hands hath hear heard heart heaven human iamb iambic pentameter land language light little birdie live look loud Lycidas man's meaning metaphor mind Moon morning mother move never night o'er object person POEMS FOR COMPARISON poet poet's poetic poetry quatrain rain reader RESPONSE rhyme rhythm Richard Cory RICHARD WILBUR Robert Lowell sails second poem sense sestet ship sigh silent sing slant rhyme sleep smile song sonnet soul sound spirit stanza star strange sweet syllables symbol T. S. Eliot thee things thou thought trees trochee verbal verse voice W. H. AUDEN walk Wallace Stevens Wedding-Guest WILLIAM BLAKE wind words youth