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Page 75
... sweet two - and - twenty Are worth all your laurels though ever so plenty . What are garlands and crowns to the brow that is wrinkled ? ' Tis but as a dead flower with May - dew be - sprinkled . Then away with all such from the head ...
... sweet two - and - twenty Are worth all your laurels though ever so plenty . What are garlands and crowns to the brow that is wrinkled ? ' Tis but as a dead flower with May - dew be - sprinkled . Then away with all such from the head ...
Page 81
... sweet breath their sweet smells do proceed , The living heat which her eye - beams doth make , Warmeth the ground , and quickeneth the seed . The rain wherewith she watereth the flowers Falls from mine eyes , which she dissolves in ...
... sweet breath their sweet smells do proceed , The living heat which her eye - beams doth make , Warmeth the ground , and quickeneth the seed . The rain wherewith she watereth the flowers Falls from mine eyes , which she dissolves in ...
Page 99
... sweet and rotten , River - smell , and hear the breeze sound Sobbing in the little trees . Say , do the elm - clumps greatly stand , Still guardians of that holy land ? The chestnuts shade , in reverend dream , The yet unacademic stream ...
... sweet and rotten , River - smell , and hear the breeze sound Sobbing in the little trees . Say , do the elm - clumps greatly stand , Still guardians of that holy land ? The chestnuts shade , in reverend dream , The yet unacademic stream ...
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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