American Poems: Longfellow: Whittier: Bryant: Holmes: Lowell: EmersonHorace Elisha Scudder Houghton, Mifflin, 1879 - 453 pages |
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... wall of basaltic trap , the whole about four hundred feet in height , at the entrance of the Basin of Minas . 34. The characteristics of a Normandy village may be further learned by reference to a pleasant little sketch - book ...
... wall of basaltic trap , the whole about four hundred feet in height , at the entrance of the Basin of Minas . 34. The characteristics of a Normandy village may be further learned by reference to a pleasant little sketch - book ...
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... wall with gest- ures fantastic , Darted his own huge shadow , and vanished away into darkness . 193. There is a charming milkmaid's song in Tennyson's drama of Queen Mary , Act III . , Scene 5 , where the streaming of the milk into the ...
... wall with gest- ures fantastic , Darted his own huge shadow , and vanished away into darkness . 193. There is a charming milkmaid's song in Tennyson's drama of Queen Mary , Act III . , Scene 5 , where the streaming of the milk into the ...
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... walls the necklace of pearls was inwoven . " 330 Silenced , but not convinced , when the story was ended , the blacksmith Stood like a man who fain would speak , but find- eth no language ; All his thoughts were congealed into lines on ...
... walls the necklace of pearls was inwoven . " 330 Silenced , but not convinced , when the story was ended , the blacksmith Stood like a man who fain would speak , but find- eth no language ; All his thoughts were congealed into lines on ...
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... walls of heaven , and o'er the horizon 615 Titan - like stretches its hundred hands upon mount- ain and meadow , Seizing the rocks and the rivers , and piling huge shadows together . 615. The Titans were giant deities in Greek mythology ...
... walls of heaven , and o'er the horizon 615 Titan - like stretches its hundred hands upon mount- ain and meadow , Seizing the rocks and the rivers , and piling huge shadows together . 615. The Titans were giant deities in Greek mythology ...
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... walls of an- cient cathedrals . Deathlike the silence seemed , and unbroken , save by the herons Home to their roosts in the cedar - trees returning at sunset , Or by the owl , as he greeted the moon with de- moniac laughter . 775 ...
... walls of an- cient cathedrals . Deathlike the silence seemed , and unbroken , save by the herons Home to their roosts in the cedar - trees returning at sunset , Or by the owl , as he greeted the moon with de- moniac laughter . 775 ...
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