The New Golden Treasury of English VerseEdward Leeson |
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... fire ; the nostril pricks with smoke Wandering slowly into a weeping mist . Brittle and blotched , ragged and rotten sheaves ! A flame seizes the smouldering ruin and bites On stubborn stalks that crackle as they resist . The last ...
... fire ; the nostril pricks with smoke Wandering slowly into a weeping mist . Brittle and blotched , ragged and rotten sheaves ! A flame seizes the smouldering ruin and bites On stubborn stalks that crackle as they resist . The last ...
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... fire deride The sacrifice that we denied . Water and fire shall rot The marred foundations we forgot , Of sanctuary and choir . This is the death of water and fire . In the uncertain hour before the morning Near the ending of ...
... fire deride The sacrifice that we denied . Water and fire shall rot The marred foundations we forgot , Of sanctuary and choir . This is the death of water and fire . In the uncertain hour before the morning Near the ending of ...
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... fire or fire . V What we call the beginning is often the end And to make an end is to make a beginning . The end is where we start from . And every phrase And sentence that is right ( where every word is at home , Taking its place to ...
... fire or fire . V What we call the beginning is often the end And to make an end is to make a beginning . The end is where we start from . And every phrase And sentence that is right ( where every word is at home , Taking its place to ...
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Adlestrop beauty Beeny beneath bird blood breast breath bright clouds Colour-Sergeant dance Danny Deever dark dead dear death deep delight doth dream earth echo ring eternal ev'ry eyes face fair fall fear fire flame flowers forto grace Grantchester green GRONGAR HILL hand hast hath head hear heard heart heaven hill honour Hymen kings kiss land leaves light live look Lord lute Lycidas mind moon morning Muse ne'er never NICHOLAS BRETON night nymphs o'er peace pleasure pow'r praise pride rest rose round Samian wine shade shadow shine sigh sight sing Sir Patrick Spens sleep smile song soul sound spirit spring stars stood sweet tears tell thee thine things thought Timor mortis conturbat Tiresias trees twas unto voice vrom W. B. YEATS weep wild wind woods youth