American Poems: Longfellow: Whittier: Bryant: Holmes: Lowell: EmersonHorace Elisha Scudder Houghton, Mifflin, 1879 - 455 pages |
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... hands of the farmers had raised with labor incessant , wards was called Arcadia , Accadia or L'Acadie . The name is probably a French adaptation of a word common among the Micmac Indians living there , signifying place or region , and ...
... hands of the farmers had raised with labor incessant , wards was called Arcadia , Accadia or L'Acadie . The name is probably a French adaptation of a word common among the Micmac Indians living there , signifying place or region , and ...
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... hand he extended to bless them . 45 Reverend walked he among them ; and up rose matrons and maidens , Hailing his slow approach with words of affec- tionate welcome . Then came the laborers home from the field , and serenely the sun ...
... hand he extended to bless them . 45 Reverend walked he among them ; and up rose matrons and maidens , Hailing his slow approach with words of affec- tionate welcome . Then came the laborers home from the field , and serenely the sun ...
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... hand or the hem of her garment ! Many a suitor came to her door , by the darkness befriended , And , as he knocked and waited to hear the sound of her footsteps , 110 Knew not which beat the louder , his heart or the knocker of iron ...
... hand or the hem of her garment ! Many a suitor came to her door , by the darkness befriended , And , as he knocked and waited to hear the sound of her footsteps , 110 Knew not which beat the louder , his heart or the knocker of iron ...
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... hand ; whilst loud and in reg- ular cadence Into the sounding pails the foaming streamlets de- scended . 195 Lowing of cattle and peals of laughter were heard in the farm - yard , Echoed back by the barns . Anon they sank into stillness ...
... hand ; whilst loud and in reg- ular cadence Into the sounding pails the foaming streamlets de- scended . 195 Lowing of cattle and peals of laughter were heard in the farm - yard , Echoed back by the barns . Anon they sank into stillness ...
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... hand in her lover's , and English , but in 1710 was attacked by an expedition from New England , and after that held by the English government and made a fortified place . . Blushing Evangeline heard the words that her father had spoken ...
... hand in her lover's , and English , but in 1710 was attacked by an expedition from New England , and after that held by the English government and made a fortified place . . Blushing Evangeline heard the words that her father had spoken ...
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