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... Golden in the mercy of his means , And green and golden I was huntsman and herdsman , the calves Sang to my horn , the foxes on the hills barked clear and cold , And the sabbath rang slowly In the pebbles of the holy streams . All the ...
... Golden in the mercy of his means , And green and golden I was huntsman and herdsman , the calves Sang to my horn , the foxes on the hills barked clear and cold , And the sabbath rang slowly In the pebbles of the holy streams . All the ...
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... golden numbers " called the Fibonacci sequence , in which each number is the sum of the two pre- ceding ones : 1 , 1 , 2 , 3 , 5 , 8 , 13 , 21 , 34 , 55 , etc. Although the sequence may look like a man - made curiosity , it turns up ...
... golden numbers " called the Fibonacci sequence , in which each number is the sum of the two pre- ceding ones : 1 , 1 , 2 , 3 , 5 , 8 , 13 , 21 , 34 , 55 , etc. Although the sequence may look like a man - made curiosity , it turns up ...
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... golden rectangle has been called , with something like Oriental mysteriousness , " the rectangle of the whirling squares . " If we divide it by the golden section so that one part is a square , the smaller area will itself be a second ...
... golden rectangle has been called , with something like Oriental mysteriousness , " the rectangle of the whirling squares . " If we divide it by the golden section so that one part is a square , the smaller area will itself be a second ...
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on nature and form | 18 |
Exercises and Diversions | 20 |
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A. E. Housman accent adjectives beauty bird blue breath called cold Copyright dark dead death dream E. E. Cummings earth emotion English Exercises and Diversions expressive eyes fall feel feet flowers Gerard Manley Hopkins girl golden gone Greek green hair hand head hear heart iambic pentameter images John kind lady language light lines lips live look Lord lovers Lycidas meaning meter mind moon mouth nature never night poem poet poetry Reprinted by permission rhyme rhythm Robert Frost Robert Graves seems sense Shakespeare sing sleep snow song sonnet speech stanza surrealist sweet syllables Sylvia Plath symbol T. S. Eliot tears tell thee things Thomas thou thought tree trochee turn verse vowel sounds W. B. Yeats W. H. Auden W. S. Merwin walk waves William William Shakespeare wind words writing young