American Poems: Longfellow: Whittier: Bryant: Holmes: Lowell: EmersonHorace Elisha Scudder Houghton, Mifflin, 1879 - 453 pages |
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... Close at her father's side was the gentle Evange- line seated , Spinning flax for the loom that stood in the cor- ner behind her . Silent awhile were its treadles , at rest was its dil- igent shuttle , While the monotonous drone of the ...
... Close at her father's side was the gentle Evange- line seated , Spinning flax for the loom that stood in the cor- ner behind her . Silent awhile were its treadles , at rest was its dil- igent shuttle , While the monotonous drone of the ...
Page 28
... Close by the chimney - side , which is always empty without thee ; 225 Take from the shelf overhead thy pipe and the box of tobacco ; Never so much thyself art thou as when , through the curling Smoke of the pipe or the forge , thy ...
... Close by the chimney - side , which is always empty without thee ; 225 Take from the shelf overhead thy pipe and the box of tobacco ; Never so much thyself art thou as when , through the curling Smoke of the pipe or the forge , thy ...
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... Close at their sides their children ran , and urged on the oxen , While in their little hands they clasped some frag . ments of playthings . Thus to the Gaspereau's mouth they hurried and there on the sea - beach Piled in confusion lay ...
... Close at their sides their children ran , and urged on the oxen , While in their little hands they clasped some frag . ments of playthings . Thus to the Gaspereau's mouth they hurried and there on the sea - beach Piled in confusion lay ...
Page 68
... close under the lee of the island , But by the opposite bank , and behind a screen of palmettos ; So that they saw not the boat , where it lay con- cealed in the willows ; All undisturbed by the dash of their oars , seen , were the ...
... close under the lee of the island , But by the opposite bank , and behind a screen of palmettos ; So that they saw not the boat , where it lay con- cealed in the willows ; All undisturbed by the dash of their oars , seen , were the ...
Page 128
... Close in thy garments of mist , to allay the fever within me ! " Like an awakened conscience , the sea was moaning and tossing , 355 Beating remorseful and loud the mutable sands of the sea - shore . Fierce in his soul was the struggle ...
... Close in thy garments of mist , to allay the fever within me ! " Like an awakened conscience , the sea was moaning and tossing , 355 Beating remorseful and loud the mutable sands of the sea - shore . Fierce in his soul was the struggle ...
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