To Read PoetryHolt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1982 - 401 pages |
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... give us a sound - pleasure . We have two pleasures at once , one in our minds as we assent to a description , the ... gives pleasure also . The y picks up the e sound earlier in the line ; the ow picks up a vowel from sounds in the line ...
... give us a sound - pleasure . We have two pleasures at once , one in our minds as we assent to a description , the ... gives pleasure also . The y picks up the e sound earlier in the line ; the ow picks up a vowel from sounds in the line ...
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... give up being a man With women - folk . We could have some arrangement By which I'd bind myself to keep hands off Anything special you're a - mind to name . Though I don't like such things ' twixt those that love Two that don't love can ...
... give up being a man With women - folk . We could have some arrangement By which I'd bind myself to keep hands off Anything special you're a - mind to name . Though I don't like such things ' twixt those that love Two that don't love can ...
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... give me a torch ! let me guide myself with the blue , forked torch of a flower down the darker and darker stairs , where blue is darkened on blueness down the way Persephone goes , just now , in first - frosted September . to the ...
... give me a torch ! let me guide myself with the blue , forked torch of a flower down the darker and darker stairs , where blue is darkened on blueness down the way Persephone goes , just now , in first - frosted September . to the ...
Contents
Good Poems and Bad | 1 |
William Carlos Williams so much depends | 9 |
Rod McKuen This is the way it was | 15 |
Copyright | |
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A. E. Housman American attended beauty beginning birds blood born breath called cold Collected Poems Creeley criticism dark dead death dream E. E. Cummings Elizabeth Bishop explication eyes fall feel feet flowers grass grave hair hand heart horse iambic images John Crowe Ransom Langston Hughes light literary literature lived look Louise Glück metaphor meter mind morning mouse never night paper paraphrase poem's poet poetry prose published rain Reprinted by permission rhyme rhythm Robert Bly Robert Creeley Robert Frost rose sing sleep snow song sonnet soul sound speak stanza student sweet syllables T. S. Eliot tell thee Theodore Roethke things thou thought tone tree turned W. H. Auden walk William William Carlos Williams wind woods words write wrote Yeats