American Poems: Longfellow: Whittier: Bryant: Holmes: Lowell: EmersonHorace Elisha Scudder Houghton, Mifflin, 1879 - 455 pages |
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... pleasant little sketch - book , published a few years since , called Normandy Picturesque , by Henry Blackburn , and to Through Normandy , by Katharine S. Mac- quoid . There in the tranquil evenings of summer , when brightly EVANGELINE .
... pleasant little sketch - book , published a few years since , called Normandy Picturesque , by Henry Blackburn , and to Through Normandy , by Katharine S. Mac- quoid . There in the tranquil evenings of summer , when brightly EVANGELINE .
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... summer , when brightly the sunset Lighted the village street , and gilded the vanes on the chimneys , Matrons and maidens sat in snow - white caps and in kirtles 40 Scarlet and blue and green , with distaffs spinning the golden Flax for ...
... summer , when brightly the sunset Lighted the village street , and gilded the vanes on the chimneys , Matrons and maidens sat in snow - white caps and in kirtles 40 Scarlet and blue and green , with distaffs spinning the golden Flax for ...
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... oak - leaves . 65 Fair was she to behold , that maiden of seventeen summers ; Black were her eyes as the berry that grows on the thorn by the wayside , Black , yet how softly they gleamed beneath the brown EVANGELINE . 17.
... oak - leaves . 65 Fair was she to behold , that maiden of seventeen summers ; Black were her eyes as the berry that grows on the thorn by the wayside , Black , yet how softly they gleamed beneath the brown EVANGELINE . 17.
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... Summer of All - Saints is our Indian Summer , All Saints Day being November 1st . The French also give this season the name of St. Martin's Summer , St. Martin's Day being November 11th . 170. Herodotus , in his account of Xerxes ...
... Summer of All - Saints is our Indian Summer , All Saints Day being November 1st . The French also give this season the name of St. Martin's Summer , St. Martin's Day being November 11th . 170. Herodotus , in his account of Xerxes ...
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... summer , Suddenly gathers a storm , and the deadly sling of the hailstones Beats down the farmer's corn in the field , and shatters his windows , 445 Hiding the sun , and strewing the ground with thatch from the house - roofs ...
... summer , Suddenly gathers a storm , and the deadly sling of the hailstones Beats down the farmer's corn in the field , and shatters his windows , 445 Hiding the sun , and strewing the ground with thatch from the house - roofs ...
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