American Poems: Longfellow: Whittier: Bryant: Holmes: Lowell: Emerson: with Biographical Sketches and NotesHorace Elisha Scudder Houghton, Osgood, 1881 - 455 pages |
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... winds of September Wrestled the trees of the forest , as Jacob of old with the angel . All the signs foretold a winter long and inclement . 155 Bees , with prophetic instinct of want , had hoarded their honey Till the hives overflowed ...
... winds of September Wrestled the trees of the forest , as Jacob of old with the angel . All the signs foretold a winter long and inclement . 155 Bees , with prophetic instinct of want , had hoarded their honey Till the hives overflowed ...
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... wind ; and the jolly face of the fiddler Glowed like a living coal when the ashes are blown from the embers . East and West Indies in which he included also some account of Canada and Nova Scotia . His picture of life among the Acadians ...
... wind ; and the jolly face of the fiddler Glowed like a living coal when the ashes are blown from the embers . East and West Indies in which he included also some account of Canada and Nova Scotia . His picture of life among the Acadians ...
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... wind seized the gleeds and the burn- ing thatch , and , uplifting , Whirled them aloft through the air , at once from a hundred house - tops Started the sheeted smoke with flashes of flame intermingled . These things beheld in dismay ...
... wind seized the gleeds and the burn- ing thatch , and , uplifting , Whirled them aloft through the air , at once from a hundred house - tops Started the sheeted smoke with flashes of flame intermingled . These things beheld in dismay ...
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... wind from the northeast Strikes aslant through the fogs that darken the Banks of Newfoundland . Friendless , homeless , hopeless , they wandered from city to city , From the cold lakes of the North to sultry South- ern savannas , 675 ...
... wind from the northeast Strikes aslant through the fogs that darken the Banks of Newfoundland . Friendless , homeless , hopeless , they wandered from city to city , From the cold lakes of the North to sultry South- ern savannas , 675 ...
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... wind in the 805 Mixed with the whoop of the crane and the roar of the grim alligator . Thus ere another noon they emerged from the shades ; and before them Lay , in the golden sun , the lakes of the Atcha- falaya Water - lilies in ...
... wind in the 805 Mixed with the whoop of the crane and the roar of the grim alligator . Thus ere another noon they emerged from the shades ; and before them Lay , in the golden sun , the lakes of the Atcha- falaya Water - lilies in ...
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