American Poems: Longfellow: Whittier: Bryant: Holmes: Lowell: Emerson: with Biographical Sketches and NotesHorace Elisha Scudder Houghton, Osgood, 1881 - 455 pages |
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... 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 of the huntsman ? Where is the thatch - roofed village , the home of ...
... 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 of the huntsman ? Where is the thatch - roofed village , the home of ...
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... answered Ba- sil the blacksmith , 230 Taking with easy air the accustomed seat by the fireside : - " Benedict Bellefontaine , thou hast ever thy jest and thy ballad ! Ever in cheerfullest mood art thou , when others are filled with ...
... answered Ba- sil the blacksmith , 230 Taking with easy air the accustomed seat by the fireside : - " Benedict Bellefontaine , thou hast ever thy jest and thy ballad ! Ever in cheerfullest mood art thou , when others are filled with ...
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... answer the farmer : friendlier purpose - " Perhaps some Brings these ships to our shores . Perhaps the harvests in England 245 By untimely rains or untimelier heat have been blighted , And from our bursting barns they would feed their ...
... answer the farmer : friendlier purpose - " Perhaps some Brings these ships to our shores . Perhaps the harvests in England 245 By untimely rains or untimelier heat have been blighted , And from our bursting barns they would feed their ...
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... answer the jo- vial farmer : — " Safer are we unarmed , in the midst of our flocks and our cornfields , Safer within these peaceful dikes , besieged by the ocean , Than our fathers in forts , besieged by the ene- my's cannon . Fear no ...
... answer the jo- vial farmer : — " Safer are we unarmed , in the midst of our flocks and our cornfields , Safer within these peaceful dikes , besieged by the ocean , Than our fathers in forts , besieged by the ene- my's cannon . Fear no ...
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... answer the no- 66 tary public , Gossip enough have I heard , in sooth , yet am never the wiser ; And what their errand may be I know no better than others . 295 Yet am I not of those who imagine some evil in- tention Brings them here ...
... answer the no- 66 tary public , Gossip enough have I heard , in sooth , yet am never the wiser ; And what their errand may be I know no better than others . 295 Yet am I not of those who imagine some evil in- tention Brings them here ...
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