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... dark , dark , dark , amid the blaze of noon , Irrecoverably dark , total eclipse Without all hope of day ! O first - created beam , and thou great Word , " Let there be light , and light was over all , " Why am I thus bereaved thy prime ...
... dark , dark , dark , amid the blaze of noon , Irrecoverably dark , total eclipse Without all hope of day ! O first - created beam , and thou great Word , " Let there be light , and light was over all , " Why am I thus bereaved thy prime ...
Page 151
... darkness guess each sweet Wherewith the seasonable month endows The grass , the thicket , and the fruit - tree wild ; White hawthorn , and the pastoral eglantine ; Fast fading violets cover'd up in leaves ; And mid - May's eldest child ...
... darkness guess each sweet Wherewith the seasonable month endows The grass , the thicket , and the fruit - tree wild ; White hawthorn , and the pastoral eglantine ; Fast fading violets cover'd up in leaves ; And mid - May's eldest child ...
Page 158
... dark hours begin . May not the darkness hide it from my face ? You cannot miss that inn . Shall I meet other wayfarers at night ? Those who have gone before . Then must I knock , or call when just in sight ? They will not keep you ...
... dark hours begin . May not the darkness hide it from my face ? You cannot miss that inn . Shall I meet other wayfarers at night ? Those who have gone before . Then must I knock , or call when just in sight ? They will not keep you ...
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A. E. Housman accent adjectives appeal beauty blank verse blow Bonny Dundee brave CHAPTER clear Coleridge colour couplet Danny Deever dark death delight diction doth duple Echoing Green emotions English example expression eyes final judgement flowers following passages free verse give green hand hath heart heaven iambic pentameters imagery images imagination Johnson judge Keats light look Lyrical melody metre metrical Milton mind modern moon mountains nature neo-Classical never night o'er Paradise Lost pattern Petrarcan pleasure poem poet poet's attitude poet's purpose prosody reader rest restricted poetry rhythmic rime-scheme rimes Romantics round scansion sense sestet Shakespeare Shakespearian silver sing skies song sonnet soul sound Spring sprung rhythm stanzas statement stress style sweet syllables system of scansion T. S. Eliot thee theme things thou thought truth versification whole wind Winter's Tale words Wordsworth write