The Main Lines of American LiteratureRaymond Wright Short, Wilbur Stewart Scott Holt, 1954 - 648 pages |
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Page 271
... Wood Stranger , if thou hast learned a truth which needs No school of long experience , that the world Is full of guilt and misery , and hast seen Enough of all its sorrows , crimes , and cares , To tire thee of it , enter this wild wood ...
... Wood Stranger , if thou hast learned a truth which needs No school of long experience , that the world Is full of guilt and misery , and hast seen Enough of all its sorrows , crimes , and cares , To tire thee of it , enter this wild wood ...
Page 359
... wood , Cool for the dutiful weighing of ill with good ; -- O braided dusks of the oak and woven shades of the vine , While the riotous noon - day sun of the June - day long did shine Ye held me fast in your heart and I held you fast in ...
... wood , Cool for the dutiful weighing of ill with good ; -- O braided dusks of the oak and woven shades of the vine , While the riotous noon - day sun of the June - day long did shine Ye held me fast in your heart and I held you fast in ...
Page 449
... wood take it home , and ef my intimit friends , those who knowd me , shood decide it wuz a portrait , I wood call and pay for it afore he left the Corners . Will I do it ? Will this picter - takin Ablishnist ever more behold me ? Ekko ...
... wood take it home , and ef my intimit friends , those who knowd me , shood decide it wuz a portrait , I wood call and pay for it afore he left the Corners . Will I do it ? Will this picter - takin Ablishnist ever more behold me ? Ekko ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 9 |
WILLIAM BRADFORD 20 | 20 |
NATHANIEL WARD 330 | 30 |
Copyright | |
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