Famous Poems Explained: Helps to Reading with the Understanding, with Biographical Notes of the Authors RepresentedNoble and Noble, 1909 - 237 oldal |
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27. oldal
... poet , and had already written Thanatopsis ( with the exception of the last paragraph , which was not written until he was twenty - eight ) , but he knew that he could not make a living out of poetry ; he wanted to be an editor , but ...
... poet , and had already written Thanatopsis ( with the exception of the last paragraph , which was not written until he was twenty - eight ) , but he knew that he could not make a living out of poetry ; he wanted to be an editor , but ...
28. oldal
... poet said to himself , " I am like that wild duck ; I , too , am wandering . " That night he wrote Lines to a Water- fowl . The wild duck was an interpreter of the present meaning of life to him . From that day - when as a poor boy he ...
... poet said to himself , " I am like that wild duck ; I , too , am wandering . " That night he wrote Lines to a Water- fowl . The wild duck was an interpreter of the present meaning of life to him . From that day - when as a poor boy he ...
39. oldal
... poet learned it of a bird , And kept its music every word- 2 A story of a dim ravine , O'er which the towering treetops lean , With one blue rift of sky between ; 3 And there , two thousand years ago , A little flower as white as snow ...
... poet learned it of a bird , And kept its music every word- 2 A story of a dim ravine , O'er which the towering treetops lean , With one blue rift of sky between ; 3 And there , two thousand years ago , A little flower as white as snow ...
47. oldal
... for Governor Berkeley , who might have uttered just such a sentiment , had been dead for a long time . Doubtless that incident is an embellishment introduced by the poet . THE RISING IN 1776 1 Out of the North the THE RISING IN 1776 47.
... for Governor Berkeley , who might have uttered just such a sentiment , had been dead for a long time . Doubtless that incident is an embellishment introduced by the poet . THE RISING IN 1776 1 Out of the North the THE RISING IN 1776 47.
67. oldal
... ( not a very good figure , by the way ) . By angel hands to valor given refers to the poetic origin of the colors of the flag in heaven as stated in the first eight lines , and as repeated in the following two lines THE AMERICAN FLAG 67.
... ( not a very good figure , by the way ) . By angel hands to valor given refers to the poetic origin of the colors of the flag in heaven as stated in the first eight lines , and as repeated in the following two lines THE AMERICAN FLAG 67.
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Gyakori szavak és kifejezések
Aladdin's Alfred Tennyson angel Armageddon army Arnold von Winkelried Baal battle battle of Blenheim beauty bird break Captain chamber CHAMBERED NAUTILUS Cromwell dark dead death died door echoes England English Excelsior eyes fall famous victory fate father fire flag forest forever Forever-never Freedom's George Gordon Byron gleaming glory Greece hands heart heaven Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Honor ideal imagination Isles Isles of Shoals Killingworth king knew lamp land Lenore Light Brigade lines literary literature lived Longfellow Lord meaning Nelly Gray never Never-forever Nevermore night o'er picture poem poet poetry Quoth the Raven Raven Rhodora roar sail sandpiper says Sennacherib shell ship shore sing snow song soul sound stanza Star-Spangled Banner stars storm story sweet Tennyson thee things thou thought tread Tubal Cain Ulalume unto verse voice wave wild wind woods word
Népszerű szakaszok
94. oldal - And there lay the rider distorted and pale, With the dew on his brow, and the rust on his mail; And the tents were all silent, the banners alone, The lances unlifted, the trumpet unblown.
195. oldal - This I sat engaged in guessing, but no syllable expressing To the fowl whose fiery eyes now burned into my bosom's core; This and more I sat divining, with my head at ease reclining On the cushion's velvet lining that the lamp-light gloated o'er, But whose velvet violet lining, with the lamp-light gloating o'er, She shall press, ah, nevermore! Then, methought, the air grew denser, perfumed from an unseen censer Swung by seraphim whose footfalls tinkled on the tufted floor. "Wretch!
193. oldal - Much I marvelled this ungainly fowl to hear discourse so plainly, Though its answer little meaning — little relevancy bore; For we cannot help agreeing that no living human being Ever yet was blessed with seeing bird above his chamber door — Bird or beast upon the sculptured bust above his chamber door, With such name as
197. oldal - thing of evil— prophet still, if bird or devil! By that Heaven that bends above us, by that God we both adore, Tell this soul with sorrow laden if, within the distant Aidenn, It shall clasp a sainted maiden whom the angels name Lenore— Clasp a rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore!
118. oldal - My Captain does not answer, his lips are pale and still; My father does not feel my arm, he has no pulse nor will; The ship is...
112. oldal - Cromwell, I did not think to shed a tear In all my miseries ; but thou hast forced me, Out of thy honest truth, to play the woman. Let's dry our eyes : And thus far hear me, Cromwell; And, — when I am forgotten, as I shall be, And sleep in dull cold marble...
204. oldal - Little thinks, in the field, yon red-cloaked clown Of thee from the hill-top looking down; The heifer that lows in the upland farm...
67. oldal - Flag of the free heart's hope and home, By angel hands to valor given ! Thy stars have lit the welkin dome, And all thy hues were born in heaven. Forever float that standard sheet ! Where breathes the foe but falls before us, With Freedom's soil beneath our feet, And Freedom's banner streaming o'er us ? JOSEPH RODMAN DRAKE.
112. oldal - Let's dry our eyes: and thus far hear me, Cromwell; And, when I am forgotten, as I shall be, And sleep in dull, cold marble, where no mention Of me more must be heard of, say, I taught thee; Say, Wolsey, that once trod the ways of glory, And sounded all the depths and shoals of honor...
213. oldal - Thus I pacified Psyche and kissed her, And tempted her out of her gloom, And conquered her scruples and gloom; And we passed to the end of the vista, But were stopped by the door of a tomb, By the door of a legended tomb; And I said— "What is written, sweet sister, On the door of this legended tomb?" She replied— "Ulalume— Ulalume— 'Tis the vault of thy lost Ulalume!