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... heart pulsing 100,000 times a day to that of the alpha waves of the brain pulsing almost ten times as fast . Even before we were born , consciousness may have come to us as an awareness of rhythm— the hammocklike swinging as our mother ...
... heart pulsing 100,000 times a day to that of the alpha waves of the brain pulsing almost ten times as fast . Even before we were born , consciousness may have come to us as an awareness of rhythm— the hammocklike swinging as our mother ...
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... heart of the mother . Hunched in the dark beneath his mother's heart , The fetus sleeps and listens ; dropped into light , He seeks to lean his ear against the breast Where the known rhythm holds its secret place . . . JOHN UPDIKE A ...
... heart of the mother . Hunched in the dark beneath his mother's heart , The fetus sleeps and listens ; dropped into light , He seeks to lean his ear against the breast Where the known rhythm holds its secret place . . . JOHN UPDIKE A ...
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... heart , with a weary heart , Go away , go away below ! Counting , counting your steps , With a large heart , with a weary heart , Today you go away .. They are no less stirring in the poetry of our own civilization : 10 Counting the ...
... heart , with a weary heart , Go away , go away below ! Counting , counting your steps , With a large heart , with a weary heart , Today you go away .. They are no less stirring in the poetry of our own civilization : 10 Counting the ...
Common terms and phrases
accent alliteration Anthology beauty begins better bird blue body breath called close cold color comes dark dead death deep dreams earth effect emotion English example express eyes face fall feel feet fields flowers four Frost girl give green hair hand head hear heard heart holds human images John keep kind language leaves light lines live look meaning metaphor mind moon mouth move nature never night objects once pass play poem poet poetry rain rhyme rhythm Robert rose seems sense SHAKESPEARE shape sing sometimes song sound speech stand stanza sweet syllables symbol tell thee things thou thought trees turn verse vowel walk wind words writing Yeats young