Chapter 3 of The Poetical Works of Robert Bridges, Excluding the Eight Dramas is here in full — 139 sentences across 28 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
A keeper or guardian of historical records and memories.
Chapter III
Chapter 3 of The Poetical Works of Robert Bridges, Excluding the Eight Dramas is here in full — 139 sentences across 28 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
TO THE MEMORY OF G. M. H. MUSE. Will Love again awake, That lies asleep so long? POET. O hush! ye tongues that shake The drowsy night with song.
Chapter 3 of The Poetical Works of Robert Bridges, Excluding the Eight Dramas is here in full — 139 sentences across 28 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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not in a state of sleep; completely conscious
From this reading “Will Love again awake, That lies asleep so long?”
half asleep
From this reading “O hush! ye tongues that shake The drowsy night with song.”
become quiet or still; fall silent
From this reading “O hush! ye tongues that shake The drowsy night with song.”
plural of “lie” — a statement that deviates from or perverts the truth
From this reading “Will Love again awake, That lies asleep so long?”
in ancient Greek mythology any of 9 daughters of Zeus and Mnemosyne; protector of an art or science
From this reading “MUSE.”
a writer of poems (the term is usually reserved for writers of good poetry)
From this reading “POET.”
move or cause to move back and forth
From this reading “O hush! ye tongues that shake The drowsy night with song.”
plural of “tongue” — a mobile mass of muscular tissue covered with mucous membrane and located in the oral cavity
From this reading “O hush! ye tongues that shake The drowsy night with song.”
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In this reading “Will Love again awake, That lies asleep so long?”
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anew
From this reading Will Love again awake, That lies asleep so long?
in a state of sleep
From this reading Will Love again awake, That lies asleep so long?
not in a state of sleep; completely conscious
From this reading Will Love again awake, That lies asleep so long?
half asleep
From this reading O hush! ye tongues that shake The drowsy night with song.
a metric unit of weight equal to one thousandth of a kilogram
From this reading TO THE MEMORY OF G. M. H.
a nonmetallic univalent element that is normally a colorless and odorless highly flammable diatomic gas; the simplest and lightest and most abundant element in the universe
From this reading TO THE MEMORY OF G. M. H.
become quiet or still; fall silent
From this reading O hush! ye tongues that shake The drowsy night with song.
plural of “lie” — a statement that deviates from or perverts the truth
From this reading Will Love again awake, That lies asleep so long?
primarily temporal sense; being or indicating a relatively great or greater than average duration or passage of time or a duration as specified
From this reading Will Love again awake, That lies asleep so long?
a strong positive emotion of regard and affection
From this reading Will Love again awake, That lies asleep so long?
the basic unit of length adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites (approximately 1.094 yards)
From this reading TO THE MEMORY OF G. M. H.
The faculty by which the mind stores and remembers information and knowledge.
From this reading TO THE MEMORY OF G. M. H.
in ancient Greek mythology any of 9 daughters of Zeus and Mnemosyne; protector of an art or science
From this reading MUSE.
the time after sunset and before sunrise while it is dark outside
From this reading O hush! ye tongues that shake The drowsy night with song.
a nonmetallic bivalent element that is normally a colorless odorless tasteless nonflammable diatomic gas; constitutes 21 percent of the atmosphere by volume; the most abundant element in the earth's crust
From this reading O hush! ye tongues that shake The drowsy night with song.
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading TO THE MEMORY OF G. M. H.
a writer of poems (the term is usually reserved for writers of good poetry)
From this reading POET.
move or cause to move back and forth
From this reading O hush! ye tongues that shake The drowsy night with song.
for that reason; with the result that
From this reading Will Love again awake, That lies asleep so long?
a short musical composition with words
From this reading O hush! ye tongues that shake The drowsy night with song.
used to introduce what somebody said, thought, or felt
From this reading Will Love again awake, That lies asleep so long?
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading TO THE MEMORY OF G. M. H.
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading TO THE MEMORY OF G. M. H.
plural of “tongue” — a mobile mass of muscular tissue covered with mucous membrane and located in the oral cavity
From this reading O hush! ye tongues that shake The drowsy night with song.
used to talk about the future, or about willingness
From this reading Will Love again awake, That lies asleep so long?
in the company of; together with
From this reading O hush! ye tongues that shake The drowsy night with song.
an old word for “you”, speaking to more than one person
From this reading O hush! ye tongues that shake The drowsy night with song.
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