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... heart , sense , and fancy , as material dreamed deep in my organs , anticipate futures formed and radiant , when all experience dissolves , desperate . I eat my memories . Stomach stuff of life is caught , shaped , and spread , and what ...
... heart , sense , and fancy , as material dreamed deep in my organs , anticipate futures formed and radiant , when all experience dissolves , desperate . I eat my memories . Stomach stuff of life is caught , shaped , and spread , and what ...
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... heart of man , what art can e'er reveal ? A wall impervious between Divides the very parts within , And doth the heart of man ev'n from itself conceal . " She spoke , but ere she was aware , Harvey was with her there . . . . 5 10 15 20 ...
... heart of man , what art can e'er reveal ? A wall impervious between Divides the very parts within , And doth the heart of man ev'n from itself conceal . " She spoke , but ere she was aware , Harvey was with her there . . . . 5 10 15 20 ...
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... heart ! heart ! heart ! O the bleeding drops of red , Where on the deck my Captain lies , Fallen cold and dead . O Captain ! my Captain ! rise up and hear the bells ; Rise up for you the flag is flung - for you the bugle trills , 5 10 ...
... heart ! heart ! heart ! O the bleeding drops of red , Where on the deck my Captain lies , Fallen cold and dead . O Captain ! my Captain ! rise up and hear the bells ; Rise up for you the flag is flung - for you the bugle trills , 5 10 ...
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ancient Mariner beauty bird blood breast breath child cloud cold context Copyright curse dark dead death doth dream E. E. Cummings earth example eyes fear feel flowers hair hands hath hear heard heart heaven human iamb iambic pentameter land language light little birdie live look loud Lycidas man's meaning metaphor mind Moon morning mother move never night o'er object person POEMS FOR COMPARISON poet poet's poetic poetry quatrain rain reader RESPONSE rhyme rhythm Richard Cory RICHARD WILBUR Robert Lowell sails second poem sense sestet ship sigh silent sing slant rhyme sleep smile song sonnet soul sound spirit stanza star strange sweet syllables symbol T. S. Eliot thee things thou thought trees trochee verbal verse voice W. H. AUDEN walk Wallace Stevens Wedding-Guest WILLIAM BLAKE wind words youth