American Poems: Longfellow: Whittier: Bryant: Holmes: Lowell: EmersonHorace Elisha Scudder Houghton, Mifflin, 1879 - 453 pages |
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... Voices of the Night , a little volume containing chiefly poems and translations which had been printed separately in periodicals . The Psalm of Life , perhaps the best known of Longfellow's short poems , was in this volume , and here ...
... Voices of the Night , a little volume containing chiefly poems and translations which had been printed separately in periodicals . The Psalm of Life , perhaps the best known of Longfellow's short poems , was in this volume , and here ...
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... The fall of the verse at the end of the line and the sharp recovery at the beginning of the next will be snares to the reader , who must beware of a jerking style of delivery . The voice naturally seeks EVANGELINE . 11.
... The fall of the verse at the end of the line and the sharp recovery at the beginning of the next will be snares to the reader , who must beware of a jerking style of delivery . The voice naturally seeks EVANGELINE . 11.
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... voice naturally seeks a rest in the middle of the line , and this rest , or casural pause , should be carefully ... voices sad and prophetic , Stand like harpers hoar , with beards that rest on their bosoms . 1. A primeval forest is ...
... voice naturally seeks a rest in the middle of the line , and this rest , or casural pause , should be carefully ... voices sad and prophetic , Stand like harpers hoar , with beards that rest on their bosoms . 1. A primeval forest is ...
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... voice of the huntsman ? Where is the thatch - roofed village , the home of Acadian farmers , ― 10 Men whose lives glided on like rivers that water the woodlands , Darkened by shadows of earth , but reflecting an image of heaven ? Waste ...
... voice of the huntsman ? Where is the thatch - roofed village , the home of Acadian farmers , ― 10 Men whose lives glided on like rivers that water the woodlands , Darkened by shadows of earth , but reflecting an image of heaven ? Waste ...
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... Voice that in ages of old had startled the penitent Peter . Bursting with hay were the barns , themselves a village . In each one Far o'er the gable projected a roof of thatch ; and a staircase , Under the sheltering eaves , led up to ...
... Voice that in ages of old had startled the penitent Peter . Bursting with hay were the barns , themselves a village . In each one Far o'er the gable projected a roof of thatch ; and a staircase , Under the sheltering eaves , led up to ...
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