Poetry of America: Selections from One Hundred American Poets from 1776 to 1876G. Bell, 1878 - 387 pages |
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... things found chiefest good ; - That I was of a lowly frame , And far more constant than the flower , Which , vain with many a boastful name , But flutter'd out its idle hour ; That I was kind to old decay , And wrapt it softly round in ...
... things found chiefest good ; - That I was of a lowly frame , And far more constant than the flower , Which , vain with many a boastful name , But flutter'd out its idle hour ; That I was kind to old decay , And wrapt it softly round in ...
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... things alive , Wonderer at all he meets , Wonderer chiefly at himself , - Who can tell him what he is ; Or how meet in human elf Coming and past eternities ! And such I knew , a forest seer , A minstrel of the natural year , Foreteller ...
... things alive , Wonderer at all he meets , Wonderer chiefly at himself , - Who can tell him what he is ; Or how meet in human elf Coming and past eternities ! And such I knew , a forest seer , A minstrel of the natural year , Foreteller ...
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... things I form'd the world anew ; What time the gods kept carnival , Trick'd out in star and flower , And in cramp elf and saurian forms They swathed their too much power . Time and Thought were my surveyors , - They laid RALPH WALDO ...
... things I form'd the world anew ; What time the gods kept carnival , Trick'd out in star and flower , And in cramp elf and saurian forms They swathed their too much power . Time and Thought were my surveyors , - They laid RALPH WALDO ...
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... things through thee take nobler form , And look beyond the earth , The mill - round of our fate appears A sun - path in thy worth . Me too thy nobleness has taught To master my despair ; The fountains of my hidden life Are through thy ...
... things through thee take nobler form , And look beyond the earth , The mill - round of our fate appears A sun - path in thy worth . Me too thy nobleness has taught To master my despair ; The fountains of my hidden life Are through thy ...
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... thing it is To suffer and be strong . THE RAINY DAY . THE day is cold , and dark , and dreary ; It rains , and the wind is never weary ; The vine still clings to the mouldering wall , But at every gust the dead leaves fall , And the day ...
... thing it is To suffer and be strong . THE RAINY DAY . THE day is cold , and dark , and dreary ; It rains , and the wind is never weary ; The vine still clings to the mouldering wall , But at every gust the dead leaves fall , And the day ...
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