Poetry of America: Selections from One Hundred American Poets from 1776 to 1876G. Bell, 1878 - 387 pages |
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... till 1829 was there anything worth calling a collection . Then Mr. Samuel Kettell published in three volumes his Specimens of American Poetry , with critical and biographical notices ; which was followed in 1831 by Dr. Cheever's ...
... till 1829 was there anything worth calling a collection . Then Mr. Samuel Kettell published in three volumes his Specimens of American Poetry , with critical and biographical notices ; which was followed in 1831 by Dr. Cheever's ...
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... till 1829 was there anything worth calling a collection . Then Mr. Samuel Kettell published in three volumes his Specimens of American Poetry , with critical and biographical notices ; which was followed in 1831 by Dr. Cheever's ...
... till 1829 was there anything worth calling a collection . Then Mr. Samuel Kettell published in three volumes his Specimens of American Poetry , with critical and biographical notices ; which was followed in 1831 by Dr. Cheever's ...
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... Till an hot pudding grew at heart a cold , And men had better stomachs at religion , Than I to capon , turkey - cock , or pigeon ; When honest sisters met to pray , not prate , About their own and not their neighbour's state . During ...
... Till an hot pudding grew at heart a cold , And men had better stomachs at religion , Than I to capon , turkey - cock , or pigeon ; When honest sisters met to pray , not prate , About their own and not their neighbour's state . During ...
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... Till the dark clouds of faction obscured our young day , And enveloped the sun of American glory . But let traitors be told , Who their country have sold , And barter'd their God for his image in gold , That ne'er will the sons of ...
... Till the dark clouds of faction obscured our young day , And enveloped the sun of American glory . But let traitors be told , Who their country have sold , And barter'd their God for his image in gold , That ne'er will the sons of ...
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... till Liberty slumbers forever . Then unite heart and hand , Like Leonidas ' band , And swear to the God of the ocean and land , That ne'er shall the sons of Columbia be slaves , While the earth bears a plant or the sea rolls its waves ...
... till Liberty slumbers forever . Then unite heart and hand , Like Leonidas ' band , And swear to the God of the ocean and land , That ne'er shall the sons of Columbia be slaves , While the earth bears a plant or the sea rolls its waves ...
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