The Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth LongfellowRoutledge, Warnes and Routledge, 1859 - 669 pages |
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... round the barren oak , The summer vine in beauty clung , And summer winds the stillness broke , The crystal icicle is hung . Where , from their frozen urns , mute springs Pour out the river's gradual tide , Shrilly the skater's iron ...
... round the barren oak , The summer vine in beauty clung , And summer winds the stillness broke , The crystal icicle is hung . Where , from their frozen urns , mute springs Pour out the river's gradual tide , Shrilly the skater's iron ...
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... round the ghastly fight , If the vanquished warrior bow , Spare him ! -By our holy vow , By our prayers and many tears , By the mercy that endears , Spare him ! -he our love hath shared ! Spare him ! -as thou wouldst be spared ! " Take ...
... round the ghastly fight , If the vanquished warrior bow , Spare him ! -By our holy vow , By our prayers and many tears , By the mercy that endears , Spare him ! -he our love hath shared ! Spare him ! -as thou wouldst be spared ! " Take ...
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... round the wooded height , And , in their fading glory , shone Like hosts in battle overthrown , As many a pinnacle , with shifting glance , Through the gray mist thrust up its shattered lance , And rocking on the cliff was left The dark ...
... round the wooded height , And , in their fading glory , shone Like hosts in battle overthrown , As many a pinnacle , with shifting glance , Through the gray mist thrust up its shattered lance , And rocking on the cliff was left The dark ...
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... round us , and her silver voice Is the rich music of a summer bird , Heard in the still night , with its passionate cadence . BURIAL OF THE MINNISINK . ON sunny slope and beechen swell , The shadowed light of evening fell ; And , where ...
... round us , and her silver voice Is the rich music of a summer bird , Heard in the still night , with its passionate cadence . BURIAL OF THE MINNISINK . ON sunny slope and beechen swell , The shadowed light of evening fell ; And , where ...
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... round , And they are gone ! No rest the inconstant goddess knows , But changing , and without repose , Still hurries on . Even could the hand of avarice save Its gilded baubles , till the grave Reclaimed its prey , Let none on such poor ...
... round , And they are gone ! No rest the inconstant goddess knows , But changing , and without repose , Still hurries on . Even could the hand of avarice save Its gilded baubles , till the grave Reclaimed its prey , Let none on such poor ...
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