American Poems: Longfellow: Whittier: Bryant: Holmes: Lowell: Emerson: with Biographical Sketches and NotesHorace Elisha Scudder Houghton, Osgood, 1881 - 455 pages |
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... thou hast ever thy jest and thy ballad ! Ever in cheerfullest mood art thou , when others are filled with Gloomy forebodings of ill , and see only ruin before them . Happy art thou , as if every day thou hadst picked up a horseshoe ...
... thou hast ever thy jest and thy ballad ! Ever in cheerfullest mood art thou , when others are filled with Gloomy forebodings of ill , and see only ruin before them . Happy art thou , as if every day thou hadst picked up a horseshoe ...
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... thou hast heard the talk in the village , And , perchance , canst tell us some news of these ships and their errand . " Then with modest demeanor made answer the no- 66 tary public , Gossip enough have I heard , in sooth , yet am never ...
... thou hast heard the talk in the village , And , perchance , canst tell us some news of these ships and their errand . " Then with modest demeanor made answer the no- 66 tary public , Gossip enough have I heard , in sooth , yet am never ...
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... Thou art too fair to be left to braid St. Catherine's tresses . Then would Evangeline answer , serenely but sadly , " I cannot ! 715 Whither my heart has gone , there follows my hand , and not elsewhere . For when the heart goes before ...
... Thou art too fair to be left to braid St. Catherine's tresses . Then would Evangeline answer , serenely but sadly , " I cannot ! 715 Whither my heart has gone , there follows my hand , and not elsewhere . For when the heart goes before ...
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... thou so near unto me , and yet I cannot be- hold thee ? Art thou so near unto me , and yet thy voice does not reach me ? Ah ! how often thy feet have trod this path to the prairie ! 1050 Ah ! how often thine eyes have looked on the ...
... thou so near unto me , and yet I cannot be- hold thee ? Art thou so near unto me , and yet thy voice does not reach me ? Ah ! how often thy feet have trod this path to the prairie ! 1050 Ah ! how often thine eyes have looked on the ...
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... Thou of the Quakers , 1265 For it recalled the past , the old Acadian country , Where all men were equal , and all were brothers and sisters . So , when the fruitless search , the disappointed endeavor , Ended , to recommence no more ...
... Thou of the Quakers , 1265 For it recalled the past , the old Acadian country , Where all men were equal , and all were brothers and sisters . So , when the fruitless search , the disappointed endeavor , Ended , to recommence no more ...
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