American Poems: Longfellow: Whittier: Bryant: Holmes: Lowell: EmersonHorace Elisha Scudder Houghton, Mifflin, 1879 - 455 pages |
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... meadows stretched to the eastward , Giving the village its name , and pasture to flocks without number . Dikes , that the hands of the farmers had raised with labor incessant , wards was called Arcadia , Accadia or L'Acadie . The name ...
... meadows stretched to the eastward , Giving the village its name , and pasture to flocks without number . Dikes , that the hands of the farmers had raised with labor incessant , wards was called Arcadia , Accadia or L'Acadie . The name ...
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... meadows . West and south there were fields of flax , and orchards and cornfields Spreading afar and unfenced o'er the plain ; and away to the northward Blomidon rose , and the forests old , and aloft on the mountains 30 Sea - fogs ...
... meadows . West and south there were fields of flax , and orchards and cornfields Spreading afar and unfenced o'er the plain ; and away to the northward Blomidon rose , and the forests old , and aloft on the mountains 30 Sea - fogs ...
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... meadows . When in the harvest heat she bore to the reapers at noontide 70 Flagons of home - brewed ale , ah ! fair in sooth was the maiden . Fairer was she when , on Sunday morn , while the bell from its turret Sprinkled with holy ...
... meadows . When in the harvest heat she bore to the reapers at noontide 70 Flagons of home - brewed ale , ah ! fair in sooth was the maiden . Fairer was she when , on Sunday morn , while the bell from its turret Sprinkled with holy ...
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... meadow . Under the sycamore - tree were hives overhung by a penthouse , Such as the traveller sees in regions remote by the roadside , Built o'er a box for the poor , or the blessed image of Mary . 90 Farther down , on the slope of the ...
... meadow . Under the sycamore - tree were hives overhung by a penthouse , Such as the traveller sees in regions remote by the roadside , Built o'er a box for the poor , or the blessed image of Mary . 90 Farther down , on the slope of the ...
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... meadow . Oft in the barns they climbed to the populous nests on the rafters , Secking with eager eyes that wondrous stone , which the swallow Brings from the shore of the sea to restore the sight of its fledglings ; Lucky was he who ...
... meadow . Oft in the barns they climbed to the populous nests on the rafters , Secking with eager eyes that wondrous stone , which the swallow Brings from the shore of the sea to restore the sight of its fledglings ; Lucky was he who ...
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