Figurative Language 8
Reading Quiz
Over me bright April
Shakes out her rain-drenched hair.
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I found her dancing like a leaf
And singing like a bird.
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Old heartbreaks are old wine.
Too new to pour is mine.
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Death will wait until you come.
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That night from a dingy hotel room,
I saw the moon, like a golden gong,
Redly loom
Across the lake;
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My heart is a little painted poem.
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I would wander with you to the ends of all creation.
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The wet wind hums its colorless refrain;
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Her beauty was a fiery dart.
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It's fair to say that building the pyramids required a bit sweat.
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The ivory teeth within the jaw
Rattled aloud, like dice.
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I am glad for my heart whose gates apart
Are the entrance-place of wonders,
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Lemonade and ice cream,
Sitting poolside on an endless summer day.
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Starvation danced with me.
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The glorious Lamp of Heaven, the Sun!
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But on this line alone, the poet has toiled a million years or more.
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Your charms in harmless childhood lay like metals in a mine;
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The black waves moaned and broke unutterably
On a stern cliff where hand in hand we stood.
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The drops ran down as slow as fate.
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Weeds climb about the stoop
And clutch the crumbling walls;
The drowsy grasses droop--
The night wind falls.
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