American Poems: Longfellow: Whittier: Bryant: Holmes: Lowell: Emerson: with Biographical Sketches and NotesHorace Elisha Scudder Houghton, Osgood, 1881 - 455 pages |
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... poems by him . A classification of his poems and longer works would be an interesting task , and would help to disclose the wide range of his sympathy and taste ; a collection of the metres which he has used would show the versatility ...
... poems by him . A classification of his poems and longer works would be an interesting task , and would help to disclose the wide range of his sympathy and taste ; a collection of the metres which he has used would show the versatility ...
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... poems directly addressed to persons or dis- tinctly allusive of them , and the reader will find it pleasant to construct the companionship of the poet out of such poems as The Herons of Elm- wood , To William E. Channing , The Fiftieth ...
... poems directly addressed to persons or dis- tinctly allusive of them , and the reader will find it pleasant to construct the companionship of the poet out of such poems as The Herons of Elm- wood , To William E. Channing , The Fiftieth ...
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... poem by the light of the volume of Nova Scotia Archives , edited by T. B. Akins . The sketches of travellers in Nova Scotia , as Acadia , or a Month among the Blue Noses , by F. S. Cozzens , and Baddeck , by C. D. Warner , give the ...
... poem by the light of the volume of Nova Scotia Archives , edited by T. B. Akins . The sketches of travellers in Nova Scotia , as Acadia , or a Month among the Blue Noses , by F. S. Cozzens , and Baddeck , by C. D. Warner , give the ...
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... poem , and the poet's fine sense of harmony between subject and form is rarely better shown than in this poem . The fall of the verse at the end of the line and the sharp recovery at the beginning of the next will be snares to the ...
... poem , and the poet's fine sense of harmony between subject and form is rarely better shown than in this poem . The fall of the verse at the end of the line and the sharp recovery at the beginning of the next will be snares to the ...
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