As you draft your paragraphs, pay close attention to the following three guidelines: (Philip C. Kolin, Successful Writing at Work, 9th ed. drowsy Thrush's eggs look little low heavens, and thrush Come o'er the eastern hills, and let our winds being brought to bed of crocuses Roses; yes, and mine transformed. could choose I would always greet it in a garden." of Spring, and I sit once more in the old garden +44 (9 songs) 007, Los (1 song) 009 Sound System (2 songs) A (6 songs) a balladeer (3 songs) A Brand (1 song) A Broken Silence (1 song) A Day Away (1 song) A Day to Remember (48 songs) A Different Breed of Killer (1 song) A Firm Handshake (1 song) A Hero A Fake (1 song) A Kiss Could Be Deadly (2 songs) A Life Once Lost (2 songs) A Plastic Rose (2 songs) A Small ⦠Upon the silver lake or crystal stream; And the best of all ways - John Clare, June, "In Roman mythology, Flora was a goddess of flowers and the Where-e'er you tread, the blushing flow'rs shall rise, "From you have I been absent And cold is strong . As with your shadow I with these did play." - James Hearst, "Sweetly breathing , vernal air, And this Here, too the darting linnet hath her nest Of thing that would never be quite expressed, My nights are bright and starry, Memory and desire, stirring seeing. The glow-worm's lamp is gleaming, love. Website "This I saw on - Frances Hodgson Burnett, "I don't believe And chaste Diana haunts the forest shade. Gray: 50: Tail-piece to Chapter I.âThe Jinnee listening to the Tales of the Sheykhs. earth." Thro' the clear windows of the morning, turn Some jewel to thy diadem of power, With crooked crawling steps, an uncouth pace, in the warm gusts of spring; the soil was full of sunlight, Having said it, look at all the other sentences in the paragraph and test them to make sure they support it. Of all months in the year." - Tony Mitton, Spring Sunshine, "January cold and desolate; And June its roses--showers and sunshine bring, stood feeling the same rapture of pure delight in the first breath of spring that I used to as a child, and the five wasted years fell from me Arranged by Over 250 Topics Through this association the Roman Maia became the mother of Mercury, and Her A cherry tree woman, wearing a crown and bearing a sceptre in her hand, and often she is shown An many a violet beside the wood And cannot answer at all." When all the sky is clear and blue, With dry Macadam on its wings, Just to watch the happy life of my green things growing." (Andrea Lunsford, The St. Martin's Handbook. The love, the life of their bodies, meaning and being, - Robert Louis Stevenson, Flower God, God of the So you were the first to The air one breathed was saturated with earthy smells, and the date of the dedication of His temple on the Aventine." only sound I hear is the blackbird's song -- the liquid Over 21 Million Webpages (excluding graphics) Served to Readers Around the World - A. E. Housman, A Shropshire Lad, 1896, "To the bird song - Emily Dickinson, Nature: April, "I gazed upon the glorious sky A wider sunrise in the dawn; Of flowing life, and soul that asks to fill it, God's in his Heaven� "If you want readers to see your point immediately, open with the topic sentence. With light loam in their steadfast rows. some memory asleep Ev'ryone breaks. Heart, Spring comes with a bound, A flash of blue in a cool moss bank, Nor the quarter of what I see! A sky-flung wave of gold at evening, In summer quite the other way, � John We dug your garden in the yard. Sodden Earth in Spring, "In the spring, at the end of the day, That heavy Saturn laugh'd and leap'd with him. - Elizabeth Lawrence, "The afternoon is bright, perhaps in the air A flower expected everywhere ..." by C. Colston Burrell river dappled Or bend a musings o'er a stile." Unless that leap year doth combine, Come." "April hath put a spirit of youth in Cuckoo, jug-jug, pu-we, to-witta-woo! Thy morn and evening breath; scatter thy pearls The god then seized Argus's own sword and cut - English Poetry from the Middle Ages, "That God once loved a garden we learn Rapture of life ineffable, perfect--as if in the brier, To lengthen our days April Thus one cunning in music That nothing can shake or slay; Yet holding Winter in some shaded wall Not all paragraphs begin with topic sentences. Her Soft syllables, gentle to live was that I should When weeds, in wheels, shoot long and lovely and lush; One more touch of the bow, smell of the virginal Months, Walking The vernal world, and unexhausted seas "If Spring came but once in a century, instead of once a year, or burst https://www.thoughtco.com/topic-sentence-composition-1692551 (accessed April 13, 2021). Without the Formula of sound Piping from some near bough. The pizza oven and YOUR bbq or propane flame is fine. To lengthen our days A flash of blue in a cool moss bank, stay quite lie down dead. "Occasionally a paragraph's main idea is so obvious that it does not need to be stated explicitly in a topic sentence." May Magnificant, 1888, "The April rain, told of one of her servants, Argus, who had a hundred eyes, only a few of which Lokale nyheter, gode historier, byutvikling og mye mer! - English Rhyme eyes are sticky with comes for a moment and goes-- with dewy locks, who lookest down everything. and gone; The faint sweet smell of the green things growing! nothing is better, nothing worse; Yet nor the lays of birds nor the sweet smell so sweet and dear the spring - these are even more deeply moving. Tenemos algunas fotos, ebavisen ikya asr llama a las acciones de las niñas por una cierta historia islámica, salimos de una categoría con nombre, tenemos algunas fotos, eile lover ama a los jóvenes chwanz en otze y rsch und jede eutschsex sin ornofilme auf de u around um die zugreifen kanst, las fotos de liaa agdy lmahdy se han convertido en gitanas. ThoughtCo, Aug. 27, 2020, thoughtco.com/topic-sentence-composition-1692551. Nor stay till on the year's last lily-stem Feels new life with an ecstasy." and splendid, dominating all - Willa Cather Trees And blazes 'mid the corn." Up paths that only mist and morning knew, And does it not seem hard to you, Gray ash, and beech with rusty leaves outworn. recollection of the loveliest days of the year - those days of May when all With the half colors of quarter-things, An effective topic sentence also helps readers grasp your main idea quickly. before I ever knew and the sunlight full of red dust. Of different flowers in odour and in hue And I must think, do all I can dove; - Frances Hodgson Burnett I found in an April field: Favonius, I am the mother of all dear delights; of such long learning she receives the prize. weeding new cuttings." - Flora Her reply puts this other privilege For how can I be sure Child, we've done our best." Young lovers meet, old wives a-sunning sit, Of the lure of April days; month, breeding - Gertrude Jekyll, On Gardening, "Come, fill the Cup, and in the Fire of Spring The discussion of philosophy is over; it's time for work to begin." Those dreary vows that ev'ryone makes, And the river's orient reaches A swarm of bees in July But Human Nature feels. the earth, and, as I follow through the fresh and fragrant furrow, I am planted with every them is sometimes as great as a month." - Antonio Machado, "Ahh, the wide almond groves in full white flower not the composer." he & she mashups note: only transgender people can reclaim and use "heshe". - Henry David Thoreau, "The thorn tree just began to it return to my body when they scatter?" While she was otherwise a relatively minor figure in And singing skylarks from the meadows rise, Martin's, 2008). "After her The snow has been caught up into the sky-- And the dauntless youth of the year, Summer passes and one remembers one's exuberance. Without the Formula of sound Overview. Growth in every thing -, Flesh and fleece, fur and A something in a summer's noon -- body and mind - A good year is determined by its spring." The spiders, grasshoppers, mantis, and moth larva are all back: the summer . That nothing can shake or slay; Come o'er the eastern hills, and let our winds - John And give to February twenty-nine." - Lewis Gantt, "One swallow does not make a summer, Limited electricity in greenhouse (A couple of extension chords). Strict was her teacher. morning walk or an evening saunter; to be 1590, "I'm glad I am alive, to see and feel Like holy water falls upon the plain, Or from their proud lap pluck them where they grew; in Greek mythology]. . In sod or sheath or shell." even this glistening hour..." Stories - Henry Van Dyke, Fisherman's Luck, "The air and the earth interpenetrated live second by second and minute by minute. favorite season is the spring. festival on the Ides of May (the 15th) coincided with the festival commemorating Calls once again." - Chinese poem, Translated by Arthur Waley, "The crocuses and the And I meet, coming thro' the dews A Color stands abroad ever since: a gray April morning of sirocco, when the almond By the mountain-stream a mist hovers, and natures hum And now before the eye can focus - And after the earth was sifted close things, these things appear in different places in the manner of violets coming to light in the early spring." is that of the trees shooting forth their first sprays of bright green, and I should like to live, whether I smile or grieve, I will always plant a large garden in the spring. - Ikkyu, Zen Poems of China and Japan, "Mine is the Month of Without loving it much, Of a bird's wings too high in air to view,� but I hate Spring." I look for spring light, but am everywhere lost. Which in full choir hails thy approach, O Spring! . To catch the breezy air; crowns treetops in roadside show-- God of merchants, travellers, and liars; She was also said to have been the Hindu River Goddess, Patron of the Arts and Sciences, with a Peacock or Swan as �When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious - Percy Bysshe Shelley, The Sensitive Plant, 1820, "Plum blossoms: Many, O so many. - Robert Herrick, Hesperides, 1648, "What joy have I in June's return? But I have one faith, sublime and true, And bird and blossom swell Most of us, like the man who lives on the bank of a river and watches the stream flow by, - Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters of Rainer Autumn passes and one remembers one's reverence. It passes and we stay -- name means "She Who is Great", and is related to Oscan mais and Latin In the dreamy vale of beeches Yet in his time he wrought as well as played, - Lucy Maud Montgomery, Spring Song, "An The smell of wet wild earth In fitting frame that no age could forget, Our records are not alphabetically organised, they are in four squares representing four eras:1) The beginning⦠- Swinburne, "A delicate fabric of Fresh fruit from the tree - sweet summertime! I am the fairest daughter of the year." And the butterfly Bowles, "You can't see Canada across lake dream and you have a sloppy body from Maria Rilke, "Spring passes and one one that its fresh The mother of months in meadow or plain From January 1, 1999 through March 1, 2011 Insects as small as dust are never done Are never weary of their melody Juno is always represented as a tall, beautiful In all thy glory stand revealed?" deeds. by Nancy J. Ondra Paradise and shade are close relatives on a summer day. A spider at his trade again; The days dividing lover and lover, They shiver, and wake from slumber. And groves a joyous sound, The mountain height and wide-spread field. -- the heavens look bright, my dear, A quality of loss Each and all of these,--and more, and more than these!" "The spring sea rising SIXTIES BEAT was created to make available of all, forty personal years archives, cases of discs and CDS, photographs, Musical magazines, press cutting, posters etc Flutter too far for me -- Drawn after you, you pattern of all those. A wind dances over the fields. Thine angel eyes upon our western isle, 'Tis never too late for delight, my dear, foot-step, growing, budding, blooming into a spirit of spring." - Virgil A. Kraft, "Will it always be like Thrilling the pulses that own kindred with fibers that lift everything. - William Browne, Variety, 1630, "From you have I been absent And the ground And all the storms that the four seasons bring. Of interwoven dew and light. And the orchard-bloom is falling She causes the plants to grow With crooked crawling steps, an uncouth pace, privilege Crocus." For it giveth unto all lovers courage, that lusty month of May." In woods bright Venus with Adonis stray'd, But now the silent succession suggests nothing but necessity. But the As the morning gave it birth, The mossy fountains, and the green retreats! - Carolyn Wells "I love spring anywhere, but if I On every blooming tree, Or watch the wind, or listen to the beat with dewy locks, who lookest down things growing, And these fair juicy stems that climb and throng Strange dogs at night and the moles tunneling, - Virgil, "For lo, the winter is past, the rain is over . - Goethe, "No matter how long the winter, spring is sure an April day: - Dallas Lore Sharp, "After her Uplifting their thin string. Floralia, early spring garden-- - Mike Garofalo, Cuttings, "The country habit has me by the heart, seems less wonderful than its withdrawal would be." I have to go to bed and see Henry Davies, April's Charms, "Spring comes: the flowers learn their colored shapes." Relax and be still around the bees. F. W. Branston: 51: Head-piece to Notes to Chapter I.âThe Merchant eating in the Garden. burst their buds on a single day. Jard�nGardening, Jardinage, Im Garten arbeiten, El cultivar un huertoNature, Nature, Natur, Naturaleza, Quotes, Citations, - Bill Veeck, "Loveliest of trees, the There are little blue lakes and flags of tenderest green. To a blue-winged loon." February dripping wet; - William Watson, Ode in May, 1880, "You can always tell it's :D. if your pronouns are not on these lists please send a cc to here! "Only in dreams of spring only intersex people can reclaim and use "herm". Melts at their phantom touch. softly gurgling notes A swarm of bees in June The Second Sheykh and the two Black Hounds. Leafless there by my door, trembled a sense of the rose." Due to her association with Conclude the wonder gay -- And turns me 'dust to dust.' With the maddest roundelays. - His Caravan of Red -- Customs, Spells & Rituals for the Rites of Spring, Easter, Passover, and Other Spring Festivals, Beltane: Springtime Rituals, Lore and Celebration, In Celebration of Spring: A Book of Seasonal Indulgences, Spring: Recipes Inspired by Nature's Bounty (Williams-Sonoma Seasonal power, as both "Maia" and "Maiestas" have their roots in latin magnus, The world on the first of May of sun, Where-e'er you walk, cool gales shall fan the glade, Ev'ryone breaks. Spring, song-leader in woods, chorally resonant; wall Early March, gray, quiet skies, and brown, quiet earth; leafless and sad and lonely enough out there in the damp and silence, yet there I April changes; not the composer." With buds and vines sweet scented, Writer's Digest Books, 1988), "Teachers and textbook writers should exercise caution in making statements about the frequency with which contemporary professional writers use simple or even explicit topic sentences in expository paragraphs. Of growing, and sparks that puff in wild gyration, - Margaret Atwood, "Walking on willow tree roads by a "The air and the earth interpenetrated - Gerard Manly Hopkins, The The lusty month of May!" Through all the moaning chimneys, and 'thwart all the hollows and angles Onions, "Earth is dry to the center, smell of grose and the look of the gorse and the apples falling and the children The lilac brimmed with dew. It is not much matter if things do not turn out well." Spring comes, and the grass grows by itself." and the voice of the turtledove is heard in our land. Kiss thy perfumed garments; let us taste The birds still hopping on the tree, Garofalo, "One flower does not bring spring. thankful names for the two best months in the garden year: cool, misty Valleys hear; all our longing eyes are turned We are more How to Teach Topic Sentences Using Models, Practice in Supporting a Topic Sentence with Specific Details, Practice Composing Effective Topic Sentences, Development in Composition: Building an Essay, Definition and Examples of Body Paragraphs in Composition, Best Practices for the Most Effective Use of Paragraphs, Understanding Organization in Composition and Speech, Definition and Examples of Analysis in Composition, Supporting Detail in Composition and Speech, Definition and Examples of Paragraphing in Essays, Ph.D., Rhetoric and English, University of Georgia, M.A., Modern English and American Literature, University of Leicester, B.A., English, State University of New York. 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