American Poems: Longfellow: Whittier: Bryant: Holmes: Lowell: Emerson: with Biographical Sketches and NotesHorace Elisha Scudder Houghton, Osgood, 1881 - 455 pages |
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... deep breaths of the upper air , to fill the lungs with a good draught of poetry , and unless one ac- companies the poet in his longer reaches , he fails to know what poetry can give him . In making the selection for this volume a very ...
... deep breaths of the upper air , to fill the lungs with a good draught of poetry , and unless one ac- companies the poet in his longer reaches , he fails to know what poetry can give him . In making the selection for this volume a very ...
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... were to disappear before a stronger power . 4. A poetical description of an ancient harper will be found in 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 in 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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Horace Elisha Scudder. 5 Loud from its rocky caverns , the 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 ...
Horace Elisha Scudder. 5 Loud from its rocky caverns , the 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 ...
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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 my ...
... 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 my ...
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