American Poems: Longfellow: Whittier: Bryant: Holmes: Lowell: Emerson: with Biographical Sketches and NotesHorace Elisha Scudder Houghton, Osgood, 1881 - 455 pages |
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... Stand like Druids of eld , with voices sad and prophetic , Stand like harpers hoar , with beards that rest on their bosoms . 1. A primeval forest is , strictly speaking , one which has never been disturbed by the axe . 3. Druids were ...
... Stand like Druids of eld , with voices sad and prophetic , Stand like harpers hoar , with beards that rest on their bosoms . 1. A primeval forest is , strictly speaking , one which has never been disturbed by the axe . 3. Druids were ...
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... stands on tablets of stone in the churchyards . Long among them was seen a maiden who waited and wandered , Lowly and meek in spirit , and patiently suffering all things . Fair was she and young ; but , alas ! before her extended ...
... stands on tablets of stone in the churchyards . Long among them was seen a maiden who waited and wandered , Lowly and meek in spirit , and patiently suffering all things . Fair was she and young ; but , alas ! before her extended ...
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Horace Elisha Scudder. Guarding in sylvan shades the name of Penn the apostle , Stands on the banks of its beautiful stream the city he founded . 1255 There all the air is balm , and the peach is the emblem of beauty , And the streets ...
Horace Elisha Scudder. Guarding in sylvan shades the name of Penn the apostle , Stands on the banks of its beautiful stream the city he founded . 1255 There all the air is balm , and the peach is the emblem of beauty , And the streets ...
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... standing , as that in which Evangeline ministered to Gabriel , and so real was the story , that some even ventured to point out the graves of the two lovers . See Westcott's The Historic Mansions of Philadelphia op . 101 , 102 . 1320 ...
... standing , as that in which Evangeline ministered to Gabriel , and so real was the story , that some even ventured to point out the graves of the two lovers . See Westcott's The Historic Mansions of Philadelphia op . 101 , 102 . 1320 ...
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... standing , the oldest in the city of Philadelphia , having been begun in 1698 . Wicaco is within the city on the banks of the Delaware River . An interesting account of the old church and its historic asso- riations will be found in ...
... standing , the oldest in the city of Philadelphia , having been begun in 1698 . Wicaco is within the city on the banks of the Delaware River . An interesting account of the old church and its historic asso- riations will be found in ...
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