American Poems: Longfellow: Whittier: Bryant: Holmes: Lowell: Emerson: with Biographical Sketches and NotesHorace Elisha Scudder Houghton, Osgood, 1881 - 455 pages |
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... seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music . Firmly builded with rafters of oak , the house of the farmer Stood on the side of a hill commanding the sea and a shady Sycamore grew by the door , with a woodbine wreathing 18 LONGFELLOW .
... seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music . Firmly builded with rafters of oak , the house of the farmer Stood on the side of a hill commanding the sea and a shady Sycamore grew by the door , with a woodbine wreathing 18 LONGFELLOW .
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... stood the broad - wheeled wains and the an- tique ploughs and the harrows ; There were the folds for the sheep ; and there , in his feathered seraglio , 95 Strutted the lordly turkey , and crowed the cock , with the selfsame Voice that ...
... stood the broad - wheeled wains and the an- tique ploughs and the harrows ; There were the folds for the sheep ; and there , in his feathered seraglio , 95 Strutted the lordly turkey , and crowed the cock , with the selfsame Voice that ...
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Horace Elisha Scudder. 2200 LONGFELLOW . 100 There too the dove - cot stood , with its meek and innocent inmates Murmuring ever of love ; while above in the vari- ant breezes Numberless noisy weathercocks rattled and sang of mutation ...
Horace Elisha Scudder. 2200 LONGFELLOW . 100 There too the dove - cot stood , with its meek and innocent inmates Murmuring ever of love ; while above in the vari- ant breezes Numberless noisy weathercocks rattled and sang of mutation ...
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... stood , with wondering eyes to behold him Take in his leathern lap the hoof of the horse as a plaything , Nailing the shoe in its place ; while near him the tire of the cart - wheel Lay like a fiery snake , coiled round in a circle of ...
... stood , with wondering eyes to behold him Take in his leathern lap the hoof of the horse as a plaything , Nailing the shoe in its place ; while near him the tire of the cart - wheel Lay like a fiery snake , coiled round in a circle of ...
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... stood the cows meanwhile , and yielded their udders Unto the milkmaid's hand ; whilst loud and in reg- ular cadence Into the sounding pails the foaming streamlets de- scended . 195 Lowing of cattle and peals of laughter were heard in ...
... stood the cows meanwhile , and yielded their udders Unto the milkmaid's hand ; whilst loud and in reg- ular cadence Into the sounding pails the foaming streamlets de- scended . 195 Lowing of cattle and peals of laughter were heard in ...
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