American Poems: Longfellow: Whittier: Bryant: Holmes: Lowell: EmersonHorace Elisha Scudder Houghton, Mifflin, 1879 - 455 pages |
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... returned , when the 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 ...
... returned , when the 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 ...
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... 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 manes and their fetlocks , While aloft on their shoulders the wooden and ponderous saddles ...
... 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 manes and their fetlocks , While aloft on their shoulders the wooden and ponderous saddles ...
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... returned to the tenantless house of her father . 515 Smouldered the fire on the hearth , on the board was the supper untasted , Empty and drear was each room , and haunted with phantoms of terror . Sadly echoed her step on the stair and ...
... returned to the tenantless house of her father . 515 Smouldered the fire on the hearth , on the board was the supper untasted , Empty and drear was each room , and haunted with phantoms of terror . Sadly echoed her step on the stair and ...
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... pebbles , and leaving Inland and far up the shore the stranded boats of the sailors . 585 Then , as the night descended , the herds returned from their pastures ; Sweet was the moist still air with the odor of EVANGELINE . 51.
... pebbles , and leaving Inland and far up the shore the stranded boats of the sailors . 585 Then , as the night descended , the herds returned from their pastures ; Sweet was the moist still air with the odor of EVANGELINE . 51.
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... returning tide , that afar from the waste of the ocean , 657. The bell was tolled to mark the passage of the soul into the other world ; the book was the service book . The phrase " bell , book , or candle " was used in referring to ...
... returning tide , that afar from the waste of the ocean , 657. The bell was tolled to mark the passage of the soul into the other world ; the book was the service book . The phrase " bell , book , or candle " was used in referring to ...
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