American Poems: Longfellow: Whittier: Bryant: Holmes: Lowell: Emerson: with Biographical Sketches and NotesHorace Elisha Scudder Houghton, Osgood, 1881 - 455 pages |
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... feeling how pure and admirable is the spirit in which these American poets have wrought , how high an ideal has been before them , and with what grace and beauty their lives have reinforced their poems ! Surely , the 521261 Ninj poets ...
... feeling how pure and admirable is the spirit in which these American poets have wrought , how high an ideal has been before them , and with what grace and beauty their lives have reinforced their poems ! Surely , the 521261 Ninj poets ...
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... feel- ing of sadness Passed o'er her soul , as the sailing shade of clouds in the moonlight Flitted across the floor and darkened the room for a moment . And , as she gazed from the window , she saw serenely the moon pass 380 Forth from ...
... feel- ing of sadness Passed o'er her soul , as the sailing shade of clouds in the moonlight Flitted across the floor and darkened the room for a moment . And , as she gazed from the window , she saw serenely the moon pass 380 Forth from ...
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... feeling of wonder and sadness , - 780 Strange forebodings of ill , unseen and that cannot be compassed . As , at the tramp of a horse's hoof on the turf of the prairies , Far in advance are closed the leaves of the shrink- 64 LONGFELLOW .
... feeling of wonder and sadness , - 780 Strange forebodings of ill , unseen and that cannot be compassed . As , at the tramp of a horse's hoof on the turf of the prairies , Far in advance are closed the leaves of the shrink- 64 LONGFELLOW .
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... Feeling is deep and still ; and the word that floats on the surface Is as the tossing buoy , that betrays where the an- chor is hidden . Therefore trust to thy heart , and to what the world calls illusions . 855 Gabriel truly is near ...
... Feeling is deep and still ; and the word that floats on the surface Is as the tossing buoy , that betrays where the an- chor is hidden . Therefore trust to thy heart , and to what the world calls illusions . 855 Gabriel truly is near ...
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... feeling Glowed with the light of love , as the skies and waters around her . Then from a neighboring thicket the mocking - bird , wildest of singers , Swinging aloft on a willow spray that hung o'er the water , 875 Shook from his little ...
... feeling Glowed with the light of love , as the skies and waters around her . Then from a neighboring thicket the mocking - bird , wildest of singers , Swinging aloft on a willow spray that hung o'er the water , 875 Shook from his little ...
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