American Poems: Longfellow: Whittier: Bryant: Holmes: Lowell: EmersonHorace Elisha Scudder Houghton, Mifflin, 1879 - 453 pages |
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... flower Spirits odorous breathes . " Par . Lost , Book V. , lines 479–482 . But he also uses the more familiar accent in other passages , as " An amber scent , of odorous perfume . " Samson Agonistes , 720 I nt I ' 120 e por 1 R [ 20 70 ...
... flower Spirits odorous breathes . " Par . Lost , Book V. , lines 479–482 . But he also uses the more familiar accent in other passages , as " An amber scent , of odorous perfume . " Samson Agonistes , 720 I nt I ' 120 e por 1 R [ 20 70 ...
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... flowers ; 495 There stood the tankard of ale , and the cheese fresh brought from the dairy ; And at the head of the board the great arm - chair of the farmer . Thus did Evangeline wait at her father's door , as the sunset Threw the long ...
... flowers ; 495 There stood the tankard of ale , and the cheese fresh brought from the dairy ; And at the head of the board the great arm - chair of the farmer . Thus did Evangeline wait at her father's door , as the sunset Threw the long ...
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... flower and the grapevine Hung their ladder of ropes aloft like the ladder of Jacob , On whose pendulous stairs the angels ascending , descending , Were the swift humming - birds , that flitted from blossom to blossom . Such was the ...
... flower and the grapevine Hung their ladder of ropes aloft like the ladder of Jacob , On whose pendulous stairs the angels ascending , descending , Were the swift humming - birds , that flitted from blossom to blossom . Such was the ...
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... flowers , and the bluest of heavens Bending above , and resting its dome on the walls of the forest . They who dwell there have named it the Eden of Louisiana . " With these words of cheer they arose and con- tinued their journey ...
... flowers , and the bluest of heavens Bending above , and resting its dome on the walls of the forest . They who dwell there have named it the Eden of Louisiana . " With these words of cheer they arose and con- tinued their journey ...
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... bee , extended around it . At each end of the house , amid the flowers of the garden , Stationed the dove - cots were , as love's perpetual symbol , 900 Scenes of endless wooing , and endless contentions 8 EVANGELINE . 71.
... bee , extended around it . At each end of the house , amid the flowers of the garden , Stationed the dove - cots were , as love's perpetual symbol , 900 Scenes of endless wooing , and endless contentions 8 EVANGELINE . 71.
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