American Poems: Longfellow: Whittier: Bryant: Holmes: Lowell: Emerson: with Biographical Sketches and NotesHorace Elisha Scudder Houghton, Osgood, 1881 - 455 pages |
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... Song of Hiawatha , The Courtship of Miles Standish , Tales of a Wayside Inn , The New England Tragedies , and a translation of Dante's Divina Commedia . Mr. Longfellow's literary life began in his college days , and every year still ...
... Song of Hiawatha , The Courtship of Miles Standish , Tales of a Wayside Inn , The New England Tragedies , and a translation of Dante's Divina Commedia . Mr. Longfellow's literary life began in his college days , and every year still ...
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... songs of the maidens . Solemnly down the street came the parish priest , and the children Paused in their play to kiss the hand he extended to bless them . 45 Reverend walked he among them ; and up rose matrons and maidens , Hailing his ...
... songs of the maidens . Solemnly down the street came the parish priest , and the children Paused in their play to kiss the hand he extended to bless them . 45 Reverend walked he among them ; and up rose matrons and maidens , Hailing his ...
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... song . But when the hymn was sung , and the daily les- son completed , Swiftly they hurried away to the forge of Basil the blacksmith . 125 There at the door they stood , with wondering eyes to behold him Take in his leathern lap the ...
... song . But when the hymn was sung , and the daily les- son completed , Swiftly they hurried away to the forge of Basil the blacksmith . 125 There at the door they stood , with wondering eyes to behold him Take in his leathern lap the ...
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... song in Tennyson's drama of Queen Mary , Act III . , Scene 5 , where the streaming of the milk into the sounding pails is caught in the tinkling k'a of such lines as " When you came and kissed me milking the cows . " Faces , clumsily ...
... song in Tennyson's drama of Queen Mary , Act III . , Scene 5 , where the streaming of the milk into the sounding pails is caught in the tinkling k'a of such lines as " When you came and kissed me milking the cows . " Faces , clumsily ...
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... song , and united the frag- ments together . 215 As in a church , when the chant of the choir at in- tervals ceases , Footfalls are heard in the aisles , or words of the priest at the altar , So , in each pause of the song , with ...
... song , and united the frag- ments together . 215 As in a church , when the chant of the choir at in- tervals ceases , Footfalls are heard in the aisles , or words of the priest at the altar , So , in each pause of the song , with ...
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