American Poems: Longfellow: Whittier: Bryant: Holmes: Lowell: EmersonHorace Elisha Scudder Houghton, Mifflin, 1879 - 455 pages |
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... oak - leaves . 65 Fair was she to behold , that maiden of seventeen summers ; Black were her eyes as the berry that grows on the thorn by the wayside , Black , yet how softly they gleamed beneath the brown EVANGELINE . 17.
... oak - leaves . 65 Fair was she to behold , that maiden of seventeen summers ; Black were her eyes as the berry that grows on the thorn by the wayside , Black , yet how softly they gleamed beneath the brown EVANGELINE . 17.
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... fair in sooth was the maiden . Fairer was she when , on Sunday morn , while the bell from its turret Sprinkled with holy sounds the air , as the priest with his hyssop Sprinkles the congregation , and scatters blessings upon them , Down ...
... fair in sooth was the maiden . Fairer was she when , on Sunday morn , while the bell from its turret Sprinkled with holy sounds the air , as the priest with his hyssop Sprinkles the congregation , and scatters blessings upon them , Down ...
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... fair , exceeding fair to behold , as she stood with Naked snow - white feet on the gleaming floor of her chamber ! Little she dreamed that below , among the trees of the orchard , 375 Waited her lover and watched for the gleam of her ...
... fair , exceeding fair to behold , as she stood with Naked snow - white feet on the gleaming floor of her chamber ! Little she dreamed that below , among the trees of the orchard , 375 Waited her lover and watched for the gleam of her ...
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... Fair was she and young ; but , alas ! before her extended , Dreary and vast and silent , the desert of life , with its pathway 585 Marked by the graves of those who had sorrowed and suffered before her , Passions long extinguished , and ...
... Fair was she and young ; but , alas ! before her extended , Dreary and vast and silent , the desert of life , with its pathway 585 Marked by the graves of those who had sorrowed and suffered before her , Passions long extinguished , and ...
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... fair as Gabriel ? others 71C Who have hearts as tender and true , and spirits as loyal ? Here is Baptiste Leblanc , the notary's son , who has loved thee Many a tedious year ; come , give him thy hand and be happy ! Thou art too fair to ...
... fair as Gabriel ? others 71C Who have hearts as tender and true , and spirits as loyal ? Here is Baptiste Leblanc , the notary's son , who has loved thee Many a tedious year ; come , give him thy hand and be happy ! Thou art too fair to ...
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