Figurative Language 3
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They have watered the street,
It shines in the glare of lamps,
Cold, white lamps,
And lies
Like a slow-moving river.
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Life is a stream
On which we strew
Petal by petal the flower of our heart;
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The daisy hugging the earth
in August, ha!
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A treasurer of immortal days,
I roam the glorious world giving endless praise,
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The river, curling softly by,
Whispers and dimples round its quiet gray stones.
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Well, siccing your attack dogs on those Christmas carolers wasn't the most neighborly thing to do.
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From their sweet feeding in the fruit;
The droning of the bees and flies
Rises gradual as a lute;
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The earth is the cup of the sun,
That filleth at morning
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An old willow with hollow branches
slowly swayed his few high tendrils
and sang.
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Love is a breach in the walls, a broken gate.
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Over the yawning chimney hangs the fog.
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Through the blinds and the windows and bars;
High over head and I could see,
There were thousands of millions of billions of stars.
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A trumpet-vine covered an arbour
With the red and gold of its blossoms.
Red and gold like the brass notes of trumpets.
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Hopeless, there stand the purple jars
Of night to spill oblivion.
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I suppose that getting into a fist fight with the principal may have been a little bit out of line.
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The far remote
Moonbeams gloat.
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So lightly I played with those dark memories,
Just as a child, beneath the summer skies,
Plays hour by hour with a strange shining stone.
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And now May, too, is fled,
The flower-crowned month, the merry laughing May,
With rosy feet and fingers dewy wet.
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Love is a young green willow
shimmering at the bare wood's edge.
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The light of loveliness
lit her face.
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Figurative Language 3
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