An Introduction to PoetryMacmillan, 1936 - 617 pages |
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Page 144
... Passing Glimpse . " Note how the swift - moving meter harmonizes with the theme . Ridgely Torrence is a present - day American poet . A PASSING GLIMPSE To Ridgely Torrence On Last Looking into His " Hesperides " I often see flowers from ...
... Passing Glimpse . " Note how the swift - moving meter harmonizes with the theme . Ridgely Torrence is a present - day American poet . A PASSING GLIMPSE To Ridgely Torrence On Last Looking into His " Hesperides " I often see flowers from ...
Page 324
... passing well . A double - clappered silver bell That must be made to clink in chime , A dainty thing's the Villanelle ; And if you wish to flute a spell , Or ask a meeting ' neath the lime , It serves its purpose passing well . You must ...
... passing well . A double - clappered silver bell That must be made to clink in chime , A dainty thing's the Villanelle ; And if you wish to flute a spell , Or ask a meeting ' neath the lime , It serves its purpose passing well . You must ...
Page 507
... pass . Bury my heart at Wounded Knee . Stephen Vincent Benét ( 1898- ) One infers that Archibald MacLeish , whose Conquistador was awarded the Pulitzer prize , has read not only Aiken , Eliot , and Pound , but also many of the older ...
... pass . Bury my heart at Wounded Knee . Stephen Vincent Benét ( 1898- ) One infers that Archibald MacLeish , whose Conquistador was awarded the Pulitzer prize , has read not only Aiken , Eliot , and Pound , but also many of the older ...
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accented syllables Alfred Edward Housman alliteration anapestic ballad beauty birds blank verse Burns Cæsar's called Camelot century chapter couplet dactylic Danny Deever dark dead death dreams earth Edwin Arlington Robinson elegy English poetry eyes feet flowers following poem free verse glory gone gray hath hear heart heaven hills Hymn iambic pentameter John Keats Lady of Shalott land light lines living look Lord lyric melody meter metrical Milton moon never night o'er poet poetic prose quatrain quote reader rhythm rime Ring Robert Robert Frost romance rose Shakespeare silent sing sleep song sonnet soul sound stanza stars sung sweet Tennyson thee theme thine things thou thought trees trochaic wandering wave weary White Man's burden Whitman wild William William Butler Yeats wind words Wordsworth written wrote