The Penguin Book of Bird PoetryPeggy Munsterberg |
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... live up to the Helen of myth and poem , and many people , when they first hear the nightingale , find it disappointing . This book attempts to show the many different ways in which poets have looked at birds . The Introduction traces ...
... live up to the Helen of myth and poem , and many people , when they first hear the nightingale , find it disappointing . This book attempts to show the many different ways in which poets have looked at birds . The Introduction traces ...
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... live in a bird world , leading bird lives , yet their speech , their reactions , and their values are so intensely human that they function simultaneously as people . What makes them so convincing is that their human character comes out ...
... live in a bird world , leading bird lives , yet their speech , their reactions , and their values are so intensely human that they function simultaneously as people . What makes them so convincing is that their human character comes out ...
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... live with me ? I kissed you oft and gave you white peas ; Why not live sweetly , as in the green trees ? 180 ODE TO A NIGHTINGALE • My heart aches , and a drowsy numbness pains My sense , as though of hemlock I had drunk , Or emptied ...
... live with me ? I kissed you oft and gave you white peas ; Why not live sweetly , as in the green trees ? 180 ODE TO A NIGHTINGALE • My heart aches , and a drowsy numbness pains My sense , as though of hemlock I had drunk , Or emptied ...
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