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... dancing Like dervises , who turn as on a pivot , he Perceived it was the Pyrrhic dance so martial , To which the Levantines are very partial . And further on a group of Grecian girls , The first and tallest her white kerchief waving ...
... dancing Like dervises , who turn as on a pivot , he Perceived it was the Pyrrhic dance so martial , To which the Levantines are very partial . And further on a group of Grecian girls , The first and tallest her white kerchief waving ...
Page 287
... dancer , in which , for a fleeting moment , it is half - captured . This transience is its wisdom - permanence is rigidity - a wisdom em- bodied in the ballerina , Pavlova : she was all grace , all movement ; but each dance came to an ...
... dancer , in which , for a fleeting moment , it is half - captured . This transience is its wisdom - permanence is rigidity - a wisdom em- bodied in the ballerina , Pavlova : she was all grace , all movement ; but each dance came to an ...
Page 302
... dance is secret with the dancers in the earth , the ritual useless , and the tribal story lost in an alien tale . Only the grass stands up to mark the dancing - ring : the apple - gums posture and mime a past corroboree , murmur a ...
... dance is secret with the dancers in the earth , the ritual useless , and the tribal story lost in an alien tale . Only the grass stands up to mark the dancing - ring : the apple - gums posture and mime a past corroboree , murmur a ...
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alliteration beauty bird blank verse blood body bora ring breath bright charm cloud colour conventional conveyed couplet dance dark dead death delight Donne doth dream earth effect English English Poetry eternal experience expression eyes F. R. Leavis fair fear feeling flowers Gerard Manley Hopkins give grace hand hath hear heart heaven human imagination James McAuley Judith Wright Keats king King Lear kiss L. C. Knights leaves light lines living look Lord lovers Lycidas Macbeth Milton mind moon nature never night o'er passage passion phrase play pleasure poem poet poetic poetry reality realized rhyme rhythm rich satiric Scholar Gipsy seems sense Shakespeare sing sleep soft song soul sound spirit spring stanza stars suggestion surprising sweet T. S. Eliot TAMBURLAINE tears Tell thee theme things thou thought tone trees turn verse vitality voice wind words youth