American Poems: Longfellow: Whittier: Bryant: Holmes: Lowell: EmersonHorace Elisha Scudder Houghton, Mifflin, 1879 - 453 pages |
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... beauty their lives have reinforced their poems ! Surely , the poets have given America no greater gift than their own characters and lofty lives . H. E. S. CONTENTS . HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW . BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH EVANGELINE : PREFACE ...
... beauty their lives have reinforced their poems ! Surely , the poets have given America no greater gift than their own characters and lofty lives . H. E. S. CONTENTS . HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW . BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH EVANGELINE : PREFACE ...
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... beauty and strength of woman's devotion , List to the mournful tradition still sung by the pines of the forest ; List to a Tale of Love in Acadie , home of the happy . 3. Observe how the tragedy of the story is anticipated by this ...
... beauty and strength of woman's devotion , List to the mournful tradition still sung by the pines of the forest ; List to a Tale of Love in Acadie , home of the happy . 3. Observe how the tragedy of the story is anticipated by this ...
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... beauty- - Shone on her face and encircled her form , when , after confession , 80 Homeward serenely she walked with God's bene- diction upon her . When she had passed , it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music . Firmly builded with ...
... beauty- - Shone on her face and encircled her form , when , after confession , 80 Homeward serenely she walked with God's bene- diction upon her . When she had passed , it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music . Firmly builded with ...
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... beauty , the lotus 810 Lifted her golden crown above the heads of the boatmen . Faint was the air with the odorous breath of magnolia blossoms , And with the heat of noon ; and numberless syl- van islands , Fragrant and thickly ...
... beauty , the lotus 810 Lifted her golden crown above the heads of the boatmen . Faint was the air with the odorous breath of magnolia blossoms , And with the heat of noon ; and numberless syl- van islands , Fragrant and thickly ...
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... beauty , Leaving behind it , broader and deeper , the gloom and the shadow . Then there appeared and spread faint streaks of gray o'er her forehead , 1250 Dawn of another life , that broke o'er her earthly horizon , As in the eastern ...
... beauty , Leaving behind it , broader and deeper , the gloom and the shadow . Then there appeared and spread faint streaks of gray o'er her forehead , 1250 Dawn of another life , that broke o'er her earthly horizon , As in the eastern ...
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