Yale Book of American VerseThomas R. Lounsbury Yale University Press, 1912 - 570 pages |
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... heard frequently that it becomes prac- tically impossible to dissociate them and judge the value of each independently . Hence the compiler is always in danger of choosing pieces not so much on account of the poetic merit they possess ...
... heard frequently that it becomes prac- tically impossible to dissociate them and judge the value of each independently . Hence the compiler is always in danger of choosing pieces not so much on account of the poetic merit they possess ...
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... heard ; Then wore his monarch's signet - ring : Then pressed that monarch's throne - a king ; As wild his thoughts , and gay of wing , As Eden's garden bird . At midnight , in the forest shades , Bozzaris ranged his Suliote band , True ...
... heard ; Then wore his monarch's signet - ring : Then pressed that monarch's throne - a king ; As wild his thoughts , and gay of wing , As Eden's garden bird . At midnight , in the forest shades , Bozzaris ranged his Suliote band , True ...
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... heard , with voice as trumpet loud , Bozzaris cheer his band : " Strike - till the last armed foe expires ; Strike for your altars and your fires ; Strike for the green graves of your sires ; God - and your native land ! " They fought ...
... heard , with voice as trumpet loud , Bozzaris cheer his band : " Strike - till the last armed foe expires ; Strike for your altars and your fires ; Strike for the green graves of your sires ; God - and your native land ! " They fought ...
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... heard The thanks of millions yet to be . Come , when his task of fame is wrought- Come , with her laurel - leaf , blood - bought- Come in her crowning hour - and then Thy sunken eye's unearthly light To him is welcome as the sight Of ...
... heard The thanks of millions yet to be . Come , when his task of fame is wrought- Come , with her laurel - leaf , blood - bought- Come in her crowning hour - and then Thy sunken eye's unearthly light To him is welcome as the sight Of ...
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... heard The Norman's curfew - bell ! I wandered through the lofty halls Trod by the Percys of old fame , And traced upon the chapel walls Each high heroic name , From him who once his standard set Where now , o'er mosque and minaret ...
... heard The Norman's curfew - bell ! I wandered through the lofty halls Trod by the Percys of old fame , And traced upon the chapel walls Each high heroic name , From him who once his standard set Where now , o'er mosque and minaret ...
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