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... Grow rich in that which never taketh rust ; Whatever fades , but fading pleasures brings , Draw in thy beams , and humble all thy might To that sweet yoke , where lasting freedoms be ; Which breaks the clouds , and opens forth the light ...
... Grow rich in that which never taketh rust ; Whatever fades , but fading pleasures brings , Draw in thy beams , and humble all thy might To that sweet yoke , where lasting freedoms be ; Which breaks the clouds , and opens forth the light ...
Page 80
... grows pale , and spectre thin , and dies ; Where but to think is to be full of sorrow And leaden - eyed despairs , Where Beauty cannot keep her lustrous eyes , Or new Love pine at them beyond tomorrow . Line six at first read , " Where ...
... grows pale , and spectre thin , and dies ; Where but to think is to be full of sorrow And leaden - eyed despairs , Where Beauty cannot keep her lustrous eyes , Or new Love pine at them beyond tomorrow . Line six at first read , " Where ...
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... grow for ever and for ever . Blow , bugle , blow , set the wild echoes flying , And answer , echoes , answer , dying , dying , dying . ( i ) And , like a dying lady lean and pale , Who totters forth , wrapp'd in a gauzy veil , Out of ...
... grow for ever and for ever . Blow , bugle , blow , set the wild echoes flying , And answer , echoes , answer , dying , dying , dying . ( i ) And , like a dying lady lean and pale , Who totters forth , wrapp'd in a gauzy veil , Out of ...
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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