American Poems: Longfellow: Whittier: Bryant: Holmes: Lowell: EmersonHorace Elisha Scudder Houghton, Mifflin, 1879 - 453 pages |
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... of appreciation when the shorter ones are taken up . It is much to take deep breaths of the upper air , to fill the lungs with a good draught of poetry ; and unless one accom- panies the poet in his longer reaches , he fails.
... of appreciation when the shorter ones are taken up . It is much to take deep breaths of the upper air , to fill the lungs with a good draught of poetry ; and unless one accom- panies the poet in his longer reaches , he fails.
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... were to disappear before a stronger power . 4. A poetical description of an ancient harper will be found ir the Introduction to the Lay of the Last Minstrel , by Sir Walter Scott . 5 Loud from its rocky caverns , the deep - 12 LONGFELLOW .
... were to disappear before a stronger power . 4. A poetical description of an ancient harper will be found ir the Introduction to the Lay of the Last Minstrel , by Sir Walter Scott . 5 Loud from its rocky caverns , the deep - 12 LONGFELLOW .
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... deep - voiced neighboring ocean Speaks , and in accents disconsolate answers the wail of the forest . This is the forest primeval ; but where are the hearts that beneath it Leaped like the roe , when he hears in the wood- land the voice ...
... deep - voiced neighboring ocean Speaks , and in accents disconsolate answers the wail of the forest . This is the forest primeval ; but where are the hearts that beneath it Leaped like the roe , when he hears in the wood- land the voice ...
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... deep- est devotion ; Happy was he who might touch her hand or the hem of her garment ! Many a suitor came to her door , by the darkness befriended , And , as he knocked and waited to hear the sound of her footsteps , 110 Knew not which ...
... deep- est devotion ; Happy was he who might touch her hand or the hem of her garment ! Many a suitor came to her door , by the darkness befriended , And , as he knocked and waited to hear the sound of her footsteps , 110 Knew not which ...
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... Deep were his tones and solemn ; in accents meas- ured and mournful Spake he , as , after the tocsin's alarum , distinctly the clock strikes . " What is this that ye do , my children ? what mad- ness has seized you ? Forty years of life ...
... Deep were his tones and solemn ; in accents meas- ured and mournful Spake he , as , after the tocsin's alarum , distinctly the clock strikes . " What is this that ye do , my children ? what mad- ness has seized you ? Forty years of life ...
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