American Poems: Longfellow: Whittier: Bryant: Holmes: Lowell: Emerson: with Biographical Sketches and NotesHorace Elisha Scudder Houghton, Osgood, 1881 - 455 pages |
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... speaking , one which has never been disturbed by the axe . 3. Druids were priests of the Celtic inhabitants of ancient Gaul and Britain . The name was probably of Celtic origin , but its form may have been determined by the Greek word ...
... speaking , one which has never been disturbed by the axe . 3. Druids were priests of the Celtic inhabitants of ancient Gaul and Britain . The name was probably of Celtic origin , but its form may have been determined by the Greek word ...
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... speak , but find- eth no language ; All his thoughts were congealed into lines on his face , as the vapors Freeze in fantastic shapes on the window - panes in the winter . Then Evangeline lighted the brazen lamp on the table , Filled ...
... speak , but find- eth no language ; All his thoughts were congealed into lines on his face , as the vapors Freeze in fantastic shapes on the window - panes in the winter . Then Evangeline lighted the brazen lamp on the table , Filled ...
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... neck and embraced him , Speaking words of endearment where words of comfort availed not . Thus to the Gaspereau's mouth moved on that mournful procession . There disorder prevailed , and the tumult and stir of 50 LONGFELLOW .
... neck and embraced him , Speaking words of endearment where words of comfort availed not . Thus to the Gaspereau's mouth moved on that mournful procession . There disorder prevailed , and the tumult and stir of 50 LONGFELLOW .
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... speak to their silent companion , Lo ! from his seat he had fallen , and stretched abroad on the sea - shore 640 Motionless lay his form , from which the soul had departed . Slowly the priest uplifted the lifeless head , and the maiden ...
... speak to their silent companion , Lo ! from his seat he had fallen , and stretched abroad on the sea - shore 640 Motionless lay his form , from which the soul had departed . Slowly the priest uplifted the lifeless head , and the maiden ...
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... speaking only of thee and his troub- les , 950 He at length had become so tedious to men and to maidens , Tedious even to me , that at length I bethought me , and sent him Unto the town of Adayes to trade for mules with the Spaniards ...
... speaking only of thee and his troub- les , 950 He at length had become so tedious to men and to maidens , Tedious even to me , that at length I bethought me , and sent him Unto the town of Adayes to trade for mules with the Spaniards ...
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