American Poems: Longfellow: Whittier: Bryant: Holmes: Lowell: EmersonHorace Elisha Scudder Houghton, Mifflin, 1879 - 455 pages |
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... Night , a little volume containing chiefly poems and translations which had been printed separately in periodicals . The Psalm of Life , perhaps the best known of Longfellow's short poems , was in this volume , and here too were The ...
... Night , a little volume containing chiefly poems and translations which had been printed separately in periodicals . The Psalm of Life , perhaps the best known of Longfellow's short poems , was in this volume , and here too were The ...
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... night , called the people to prayer , in com- memoration of the visit of the angel of the Lord to the Virgin Mary . It was introduced into France in its modern form in the sixteenth century . 50 Columns of pale blue smoke , like clouds ...
... night , called the people to prayer , in com- memoration of the visit of the angel of the Lord to the Virgin Mary . It was introduced into France in its modern form in the sixteenth century . 50 Columns of pale blue smoke , like clouds ...
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... nights grow colder and longer , And the retreating sun the sign of the Scorpion enters . 150 Birds of passage sailed through the leaden air , from the ice - bound , Desolate northern bays to the shores of tropical islands . Harvests ...
... nights grow colder and longer , And the retreating sun the sign of the Scorpion enters . 150 Birds of passage sailed through the leaden air , from the ice - bound , Desolate northern bays to the shores of tropical islands . Harvests ...
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... night , through the starry silence , the wolves howled . Late , with the rising moon , returned the wains from the marshes , Laden with briny hay , that filled the air with ite odor . Cheerily neighed the steeds , with dew on their ...
... night , through the starry silence , the wolves howled . Late , with the rising moon , returned the wains from the marshes , Laden with briny hay , that filled the air with ite odor . Cheerily neighed the steeds , with dew on their ...
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... night may no shadow of sorrow Fall on this house and hearth ; for this is the night of the contract . 260 Built are the house and the barn . The merry lads of the village Strongly have built them and well ; and , breaking the glebe ...
... night may no shadow of sorrow Fall on this house and hearth ; for this is the night of the contract . 260 Built are the house and the barn . The merry lads of the village Strongly have built them and well ; and , breaking the glebe ...
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