Only your love and your remembrance could And make these branches, leafless now so long, THE day is done, and the darkness I see the lights of the village Gleam through the rain and the mist, A feeling of sadness and longing, 3 And resembles sorrow only As the mist resembles the rain.4 Come, read to me some poem, 1 give life... Blossom. Literal or figurative? 2 wafted (allied to wave), floated. 8 akin (a, off, and kin, race, kind), literally, of the same kind; related to, like. Note that this adjective follows the noun it modifies. 4 As the mist, etc. Show the appositeness of this beautiful simile. ōlay, song. 6 banish, originally to put under ban, or proclamation: hence, to exile, and secondarily to drive away. Not from the grand old masters, Not from the bards sublime, Through the corridors of Time;1 For, like strains of martial music, Read from some humbler poet, Who, through long days of labor, Such songs have power to quiet Then read from the treasured volume 4 And lend to the rhyme of the poet 1 corridors of Time. What is the figure of speech? 2 As showers. . . Or tears, etc. What are these two comparisons used to illustrate? 3 the benediction. Explain the meaning of the word here. What is the figure of speech? 4 the treasured volume. What is the thought? And the night shall be filled with music, [From the Tales of a Wayside Inn.] AT Atri2 in Abruzzo,3 a small town 6 By way of shelter from the sun and rain. Then rode he through the streets with all his train,7 And, with the blast of trumpets loud and long, Made proclamation, that whenever wrong 1 Shall fold... away. A muchquoted couplet. It contains a metaphor and a simile: point out each, and show their appropriateness. 2 Atri (pron. ä'tre), a town of Italy, anciently Hadria, the birthplace of the Roman Emperor Hadrian. 8 Abruzzo (pron. ä-brōotso), a province of Italy. 4 have run... sat down. What is the figure of speech? 5 Re Giovanni (pron. rā jo-vā′nē), Italian for King John. 6 projecting. See Glossary. 7 Was done to any man, he should but ring How swift2 the happy days in Atri sped,3 By chance it happened that in Atri dwelt A knight, with spur on heel and sword in belt, He sold his horses, sold his hawks and hounds, 1 syndic, an officer of justice. 2 swift swiftly. 3 sped, made haste. 4 decay. See Webster. 5 unraveled. Explain. 6 votive (from Latin votum, a vow), given by vow, given as an offering. 7 hoods: that is, the cloth blinders put on the hunting hawk in the early stages of the chase. 8 prodigalities. Give a synonym. Kept but one steed,1 his favorite steed of all, And day by day sat brooding in his chair, At length he said, "What is the use or need So the old steed was turned into the heat One afternoon, as in that sultry clime 6 With bolted doors and window-shutters closed, The syndic started from his deep repose,8 Turned on his couch, and listened, and then rose 1 steed. Of what prose word is this the poetic equivalent? 2 devising, inventing. 5 forlorn. What noun does this adjective modify? 6 clime. Of what prose word is 3 spare (compare German sparen, this the poetic form? to save), to economize. 7 alarum. Poetic form of what 4 Eating his head off. Explain word? this hyperbole. 8 repose. Give a synonym. |