American Poems: Longfellow: Whittier: Bryant: Holmes: Lowell: Emerson; with Biographical Sketches and NotesHorace Elisha Scudder Houghton, Osgood, 1879 - 455 pages |
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... look of wisdom supernal . Father of twenty children was he , and more than a hundred Children's children rode on his knee , and heard his great watch tick . 275 Four long years in the times of the war had he languished a captive ...
... look of wisdom supernal . Father of twenty children was he , and more than a hundred Children's children rode on his knee , and heard his great watch tick . 275 Four long years in the times of the war had he languished a captive ...
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... look for the how , and the why , and the wherefore ? Daily injustice is done , and might is the right of the strongest ! " 300 But , without heeding his warmth , continued the notary public , " Man is unjust , but God is just ; and ...
... look for the how , and the why , and the wherefore ? Daily injustice is done , and might is the right of the strongest ! " 300 But , without heeding his warmth , continued the notary public , " Man is unjust , but God is just ; and ...
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... looks and words the mournful hearts of the women , As o'er the darkening fields with lingering steps they departed , 505 Urged by their household cares , and the weary feet of their children . Down sank the great red sun , and in golden ...
... looks and words the mournful hearts of the women , As o'er the darkening fields with lingering steps they departed , 505 Urged by their household cares , and the weary feet of their children . Down sank the great red sun , and in golden ...
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... looks of saddest compassion . Still the blaze of the burning village illumined the landscape , Reddened the sky overhead , and gleamed on the faces around her , 650 And like the day of doom it seemed to her waver- ing senses . Then a ...
... looks of saddest compassion . Still the blaze of the burning village illumined the landscape , Reddened the sky overhead , and gleamed on the faces around her , 650 And like the day of doom it seemed to her waver- ing senses . Then a ...
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... Spanish sombrero 915 Gazed on the peaceful scene , with the lordly look of its master . Bound about him were numberless herds of kine , that were grazing Quietly in the meadows , and breathing the vapory freshness 72 LONGFELLOW .
... Spanish sombrero 915 Gazed on the peaceful scene , with the lordly look of its master . Bound about him were numberless herds of kine , that were grazing Quietly in the meadows , and breathing the vapory freshness 72 LONGFELLOW .
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