American LiteratureScott, Foresman, 1901 - 364 pages |
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... Poets of America is a natural guide , though Mr. Stedman has such an easy way of winning assent that one who values his own independence will use him charily . Professor Richardson's American Liter- ature is valuable for the whole field ...
... Poets of America is a natural guide , though Mr. Stedman has such an easy way of winning assent that one who values his own independence will use him charily . Professor Richardson's American Liter- ature is valuable for the whole field ...
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... poet find his song . It was only a question of time when there should be an American literature , and the time was not unduly long in coming . Now , indeed , some portion of our literature is safely en- shrined as classic , and it is ...
... poet find his song . It was only a question of time when there should be an American literature , and the time was not unduly long in coming . Now , indeed , some portion of our literature is safely en- shrined as classic , and it is ...
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... poet , was the ideal of the early Elizabethans . Spenser never ceased to mourn his half - enforced banishment to the wilds of Ireland . The dramatists flocked to London . Bacon rose to be lord chancellor and a peer . Milton , half a ...
... poet , was the ideal of the early Elizabethans . Spenser never ceased to mourn his half - enforced banishment to the wilds of Ireland . The dramatists flocked to London . Bacon rose to be lord chancellor and a peer . Milton , half a ...
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... poets according to their tastes and abilities . The poems of one of these , Mistress Anne Bradstreet , were introduced to the British and American public of 1650 ... poetic frenzy : " They wring their hands , their caitiff - hands POETRY 23.
... poets according to their tastes and abilities . The poems of one of these , Mistress Anne Bradstreet , were introduced to the British and American public of 1650 ... poetic frenzy : " They wring their hands , their caitiff - hands POETRY 23.
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... his brilliant mind to theology . He took the literal statements of the Bible , and with unshrinking logic pushed them to the most terrible conclusions . He could depict -for with all his logic he had a poetic imagination THEOLOGY.
... his brilliant mind to theology . He took the literal statements of the Bible , and with unshrinking logic pushed them to the most terrible conclusions . He could depict -for with all his logic he had a poetic imagination THEOLOGY.
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Page 211 - Once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide, In the strife of truth with falsehood, for the good or evil side; Some great cause, God's New Messiah, offering each the bloom or blight, Parts the goats upon the left hand and the sheep upon the right; And the choice goes by forever 'twixt that darkness and that light.
Page 256 - I stand and look at them long and long. They do not sweat and whine about their condition, They do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins, They do not make me sick discussing their duty to God, Not one is dissatisfied, not one is demented with the mania of owning things...
Page 152 - By the rude bridge that arched the flood, Their flag to April's breeze unfurled, Here once the embattled farmers stood, And fired the shot heard round the world. The foe long since in silence slept; Alike the conqueror silent sleeps; And Time the ruined bridge has swept Down the dark stream which seaward creeps. On this green bank, by this soft stream, We set to-day a votive stone; That memory may their deed redeem, When...
Page 212 - Truth forever on the scaffold, Wrong forever on the throne, — Yet that scaffold sways the future, and, behind the dim unknown, Standeth God within the shadow, keeping watch above his own.
Page 97 - So live, that, when thy summons comes to join The innumerable caravan, which moves To that mysterious realm, where each shall take His chamber in the silent halls of death, Thou go not, like the quarry-slave at night, Scourged to his dungeon, but sustained and soothed By an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave, Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams.
Page 89 - Flag of the free heart's hope and home, By angel hands to valor given ! Thy stars have lit the welkin dome, And all thy hues were born in heaven. Forever float that standard sheet ! Where breathes the foe but falls before us, With Freedom's soil beneath our feet, And Freedom's banner streaming o'er us ? JOSEPH RODMAN DRAKE.
Page 91 - Thinks of thy fate and checks her tears. And she, the mother of thy boys. Though in her eye and faded cheek Is read the grief she will not speak, The memory of her buried Joys, And even she who gave thee birth, Will by their pilgrim-circled hearth Talk of thy doom without a sigh: For thou art freedom's now and fame's, One of the few, the immortal names, That were not born to die.
Page 154 - Our day of dependence, our long apprenticeship to the learning of other lands, draws to a close. The millions that around us are rushing into life cannot always be fed on the sere remains of foreign harvests. Events, actions arise, that must be sung, that will sing themselves.
Page 154 - I see the spectacle of morning from the hilltop over against my house, from daybreak to sunrise, with emotions which an angel might share. The long slender bars of cloud float like fishes in the sea of crimson light. From the earth, as a shore, I look out into that silent sea. I seem to partake its rapid transformations; the active enchantment reaches my dust, and I dilate and conspire with the morning wind. How does Nature deify us with a few and cheap elements! Give me health and a day, and I will...
Page 161 - Wilt thou not ope thy heart to know What rainbows teach, and sunsets show? Verdict which accumulates From lengthening scroll of human fates, Voice of earth to earth returned, Prayers of saints that inly burned, — Saying, What is excellent, As God lives, is permanent ; Hearts are dust, hearts' loves remain, Heart's love will meet thee again.