Poetry of America: Selections from One Hundred American Poets from 1776 to 1876G. Bell, 1878 - 387 pages |
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... silent , dull retreat , Untouch'd thy honey'd blossoms blow , Unseen thy little branches greet : No roving foot shall crush thee here , No busy hand provoke a tear . By Nature's self in white array'd , She bade thee shun the vulgar eye ...
... silent , dull retreat , Untouch'd thy honey'd blossoms blow , Unseen thy little branches greet : No roving foot shall crush thee here , No busy hand provoke a tear . By Nature's self in white array'd , She bade thee shun the vulgar eye ...
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... silence reposes , What is that which the breeze , o'er the towering steep , As it fitfully blows , now conceals , now discloses ? * See Note 3 . Now it catches the gleam of the morning's first beam FRANCIS SCOTT KEY . 7 FRANCIS SCOTT ...
... silence reposes , What is that which the breeze , o'er the towering steep , As it fitfully blows , now conceals , now discloses ? * See Note 3 . Now it catches the gleam of the morning's first beam FRANCIS SCOTT KEY . 7 FRANCIS SCOTT ...
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... soldier in his course , - That Right shall triumph still o'er insolent Force : That be your silent speech ! * See Note 7 . Oh , be prophetic too ! And may those nations 22 POETRY OF AMERICA . NATHANIEL LANGDON FROTHINGHAM The Crossed ...
... soldier in his course , - That Right shall triumph still o'er insolent Force : That be your silent speech ! * See Note 7 . Oh , be prophetic too ! And may those nations 22 POETRY OF AMERICA . NATHANIEL LANGDON FROTHINGHAM The Crossed ...
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... silent watches , gliding slow , Her constellations come , and climb the heavens , and go . Day , too , hath many a star To grace his gorgeous reign , as bright as they ; Through the blue fields afar , Unseen , they follow in his flaming ...
... silent watches , gliding slow , Her constellations come , and climb the heavens , and go . Day , too , hath many a star To grace his gorgeous reign , as bright as they ; Through the blue fields afar , Unseen , they follow in his flaming ...
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... silence sits beside the dead . And some to happy homes repair , Where children , pressing cheek to cheek , With mute caresses shall declare The tenderness they cannot speak . And some , who walk in calmness here , Shall shudder as they ...
... silence sits beside the dead . And some to happy homes repair , Where children , pressing cheek to cheek , With mute caresses shall declare The tenderness they cannot speak . And some , who walk in calmness here , Shall shudder as they ...
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