Types of English PoetryRudolf Kirk, Clara Marburg Kirk Macmillan, 1940 - 663 pages |
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... bird , invisible , is a “ light - winged Dryad of the trees . The very metaphor , together with the reference to hemlock and to Lethe , reminds us that birds were singing as freshly many centuries ago as they are now . Their unchanging ...
... bird , invisible , is a “ light - winged Dryad of the trees . The very metaphor , together with the reference to hemlock and to Lethe , reminds us that birds were singing as freshly many centuries ago as they are now . Their unchanging ...
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... bird did follow , Nor any day for food or play Came to the mariner's hollo ! " And I had done a hellish thing , And it would work ' em woe : For all averred , I had killed the bird That made the breeze to blow . Ah wretch ! said they , the ...
... bird did follow , Nor any day for food or play Came to the mariner's hollo ! " And I had done a hellish thing , And it would work ' em woe : For all averred , I had killed the bird That made the breeze to blow . Ah wretch ! said they , the ...
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... bird was perched , as fond and tame , And tamer than upon the tree ; A lovely bird , with azure wings , And song that said a thousand things , And seemed to say them all for me ! I never saw its like before . I ne'er shall see its ...
... bird was perched , as fond and tame , And tamer than upon the tree ; A lovely bird , with azure wings , And song that said a thousand things , And seemed to say them all for me ! I never saw its like before . I ne'er shall see its ...
Contents
PREFACE | 1 |
INTRODUCTION TO NARRATIVE POETRY | 38 |
EDMUND SPENSER | 42 |
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