American Poems: Longfellow: Whittier: Bryant: Holmes: Lowell: Emerson: with Biographical Sketches and NotesHorace Elisha Scudder Houghton, Osgood, 1881 - 455 pages |
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... 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 , published a few years since , called Normandy Picturesque ...
... 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 , published a few years since , called Normandy Picturesque ...
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... feet on the gleaming floor of her chamber ! Little she dreamed that below , among the trees of the orchard , 375 Waited her lover and watched for the gleam of her lamp and her shadow . Yet were her thoughts of him , and at times a feel ...
... feet on the gleaming floor of her chamber ! Little she dreamed that below , among the trees of the orchard , 375 Waited her lover and watched for the gleam of her lamp and her shadow . Yet were her thoughts of him , and at times a feel ...
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... feet of their children . Down sank the great red sun , and in golden , glimmering vapors Veiled the light of his face , like the Prophet de- scending from Sinai . Sweetly over the village the bell of the Angelus sounded . Meanwhile ...
... feet of their children . Down sank the great red sun , and in golden , glimmering vapors Veiled the light of his face , like the Prophet de- scending from Sinai . Sweetly over the village the bell of the Angelus sounded . Meanwhile ...
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... feet of a child on a threshold , Hushed by the scene he beholds , and the awful presence of sorrow . Silently , therefore , he laid his hand on the head of the maiden , 610 Raising his tearful eyes to the silent stars that above them ...
... feet of a child on a threshold , Hushed by the scene he beholds , and the awful presence of sorrow . Silently , therefore , he laid his hand on the head of the maiden , 610 Raising his tearful eyes to the silent stars that above them ...
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... feet a garden of flowers , and the bluest of heavens Bending above , and resting its dome on the walls of the forest . They who dwell there have named it the Eden of Louisiana . " With these words of cheer they arose and con- tinued ...
... feet a garden of flowers , and the bluest of heavens Bending above , and resting its dome on the walls of the forest . They who dwell there have named it the Eden of Louisiana . " With these words of cheer they arose and con- tinued ...
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