Poets of AmericaHoughton, Mifflin, 1885 - 516 pages |
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... - rectly interested , except in the cases of living female writers whose dates of birth are not given already in standard compilations . - NEW YORK , September , 1885 . E. C. S. CONTENTS . CHAPTER I. PAGE EARLY AND RECENT CONDITIONS I.
... - rectly interested , except in the cases of living female writers whose dates of birth are not given already in standard compilations . - NEW YORK , September , 1885 . E. C. S. CONTENTS . CHAPTER I. PAGE EARLY AND RECENT CONDITIONS I.
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Edmund Clarence Stedman. POETS OF AMERICA . POETS OF AMERICA . IT CHAPTER I. EARLY AND RECENT.
Edmund Clarence Stedman. POETS OF AMERICA . POETS OF AMERICA . IT CHAPTER I. EARLY AND RECENT.
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Edmund Clarence Stedman. POETS OF AMERICA . IT CHAPTER I. EARLY AND RECENT CONDITIONS . I. thor's pur pose . T is my design to trace the current of poesy , deep- The au ening and widening in common with our ... EARLY AND RECENT CONDITIONS.
Edmund Clarence Stedman. POETS OF AMERICA . IT CHAPTER I. EARLY AND RECENT CONDITIONS . I. thor's pur pose . T is my design to trace the current of poesy , deep- The au ening and widening in common with our ... EARLY AND RECENT CONDITIONS.
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... we may get some notion of the real quality of the first genuine awakening of our home - song . For that there has been such an awakening is the LAWS OF GROWTH . environ- ment ; 3 very cause 2 EARLY AND RECENT CONDITIONS .
... we may get some notion of the real quality of the first genuine awakening of our home - song . For that there has been such an awakening is the LAWS OF GROWTH . environ- ment ; 3 very cause 2 EARLY AND RECENT CONDITIONS .
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Page 388 - THERE was a child went forth every day, And the first object he look'd upon, that object he became, And that object became part of him for the day or a certain part of the day, Or for many years or stretching cycles of years.
Page 355 - I CELEBRATE myself, and sing myself, And what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you. I loafe and invite my soul, I lean and loafe at my ease observing a spear of summer grass.
Page 162 - The hand that rounded Peter's dome And groined the aisles of Christian Rome Wrought in a sad sincerity; Himself from God he could not free; He builded better than he knew; The conscious stone to beauty grew.
Page 243 - But lo, a stir is in the air! The wave — there is a movement there! As if the towers had thrust aside, In slightly sinking, the dull tide — As if their tops had feebly given A void within the filmy Heaven. The waves have now a redder glow — The hours are breathing faint and low — And when, amid no earthly moans, Down, down that town shall settle hence, Hell, rising from a thousand thrones, Shall do it reverence.
Page 167 - Daughters of Time, the hypocritic Days, Muffled and dumb like barefoot dervishes, And marching single in an endless file. Bring diadems and fagots in their hands. To each they offer gifts after his will. Bread, kingdoms, stars, and sky that holds them all.
Page 118 - A hard, dull bitterness of cold, That checked, mid-vein, the circling race Of life-blood in the sharpened face, The coming of the snow-storm told. The wind blew east ; we heard the roar Of Ocean on his wintry shore, And felt the strong pulse throbbing there Beat with low rhythm our inland air.
Page 247 - Banners yellow, glorious, golden, On its roof did float and flow (This — all this — was in the olden Time long ago) And every gentle air that dallied, In that sweet day, Along the ramparts plumed and pallid, A winged odor went away.
Page 167 - DAUGHTERS of Time, the hypocritic Days, Muffled and dumb like barefoot dervishes, And marching single in an endless file, Bring diadems and fagots in their hands. To each they offer gifts after his will, Bread, kingdoms, stars, and sky that holds them all. I, in my pleached garden, watched the pomp, Forgot my morning wishes, hastily Took a few herbs and apples, and the Day Turned and departed silent. I, too late, Under her solemn fillet saw the scorn.
Page 186 - Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
Page 152 - For Nature beats in perfect tune, And rounds with rhyme her every rune, Whether she work in land or sea, Or hide underground her alchemy. Thou canst not wave thy staff in air, Or dip thy paddle in the lake, But it carves the bow of beauty there, And the ripples in rhymes the oar forsake.