American Poems: Longfellow: Whittier: Bryant: Holmes: Lowell: EmersonHorace Elisha Scudder Houghton, Mifflin, 1879 - 453 pages |
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Page 47
... dead , nor the gloom . ier grave of the living . Slowly at length she returned to the tenantless house of her father . 515 Smouldered the fire on the hearth , on the board was the supper untasted , Empty and drear was each room , and ...
... dead , nor the gloom . ier grave of the living . Slowly at length she returned to the tenantless house of her father . 515 Smouldered the fire on the hearth , on the board was the supper untasted , Empty and drear was each room , and ...
Page 48
... dead of the night she heard the disconso- late rain fall Loud on the withered leaves of the sycamore - tree by the window . 520 Keenly the lightning flashed ; and the voice of the echoing thunder Told her that God was in heaven , and ...
... dead of the night she heard the disconso- late rain fall Loud on the withered leaves of the sycamore - tree by the window . 520 Keenly the lightning flashed ; and the voice of the echoing thunder Told her that God was in heaven , and ...
Page 57
... dead on the shore , and the village in ruins . PART THE SECOND . I. MANY a weary year had passed since the burning of Grand - Pré , When on the falling tide the freighted vessels de- parted , Bearing a nation , with all its household ...
... dead on the shore , and the village in ruins . PART THE SECOND . I. MANY a weary year had passed since the burning of Grand - Pré , When on the falling tide the freighted vessels de- parted , Bearing a nation , with all its household ...
Page 58
... dead and abandoned , As the emigrant's way o'er the Western desert is marked by Camp - fires long consumed , and bones that bleach in the sunshine . Something there was in her life incomplete , im- perfect , unfinished ; 690 As if a ...
... dead and abandoned , As the emigrant's way o'er the Western desert is marked by Camp - fires long consumed , and bones that bleach in the sunshine . Something there was in her life incomplete , im- perfect , unfinished ; 690 As if a ...
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... him who was speeding before them , Blown by the blast of fate like a dead leaf over the desert . 1070 Not that day , nor the next , nor yet the day that succeeded , Found they trace of his course , in lake or EVANGELINE . 81.
... him who was speeding before them , Blown by the blast of fate like a dead leaf over the desert . 1070 Not that day , nor the next , nor yet the day that succeeded , Found they trace of his course , in lake or EVANGELINE . 81.
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