American Poems: Longfellow: Whittier: Bryant: Holmes: Lowell: EmersonHorace Elisha Scudder Houghton, Mifflin, 1879 - 455 pages |
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... green , indis- tinct in the twilight , Stand like Druids of eld , with voices sad and prophetic , Stand like harpers hoar , with beards that rest on their bosoms . 1. A primeval forest is , strictly speaking , one which has never been ...
... green , indis- tinct in the twilight , Stand like Druids of eld , with voices sad and prophetic , Stand like harpers hoar , with beards that rest on their bosoms . 1. A primeval forest is , strictly speaking , one which has never been ...
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... green , with distaffs spinning the golden Flax for the gossiping looms , whose noisy shuttles within doors Mingled their sound with the whir of the wheels and the songs of the maidens . Solemnly down the street came the parish priest ...
... green , with distaffs spinning the golden Flax for the gossiping looms , whose noisy shuttles within doors Mingled their sound with the whir of the wheels and the songs of the maidens . Solemnly down the street came the parish priest ...
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... green stalk , from thence the leaves More airy , last the bright consummate flower Spirits odorous breathes . " Par . Lost , Book V. , lines 479–482 . But he also uses the more familiar accent in other passages , an " An amber scent ...
... green stalk , from thence the leaves More airy , last the bright consummate flower Spirits odorous breathes . " Par . Lost , Book V. , lines 479–482 . But he also uses the more familiar accent in other passages , an " An amber scent ...
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... green islands , where plumelike Cotton - trees nodded their shadowy crests , they swept with the current , Then emerged into broad lagoons , where silvery sand - bars Lay in the stream , and along the wimpling waves of their margin ...
... green islands , where plumelike Cotton - trees nodded their shadowy crests , they swept with the current , Then emerged into broad lagoons , where silvery sand - bars Lay in the stream , and along the wimpling waves of their margin ...
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... green Opelousas , 885 And , through the amber air , above the crest of the woodland , Saw the column of smoke that arose from a neigh- boring dwelling ; - Sounds of a horn they heard , and the distant low- ing of cattle . III . Near to ...
... green Opelousas , 885 And , through the amber air , above the crest of the woodland , Saw the column of smoke that arose from a neigh- boring dwelling ; - Sounds of a horn they heard , and the distant low- ing of cattle . III . Near to ...
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