Yale Book of American VerseThomas Raynesford Lounsbury Yale University Press, 1912 - 570 pages |
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Page xix
... poor estimate of such work is due to a defect in himself and not in the poetry he undervalues . Few of us are sufficiently endowed with that broadminded- ness of judgment and that catholicity of taste which enable its possessor to bring ...
... poor estimate of such work is due to a defect in himself and not in the poetry he undervalues . Few of us are sufficiently endowed with that broadminded- ness of judgment and that catholicity of taste which enable its possessor to bring ...
Page xlv
... poor that they are not found here . On the contrary , it is often very good - some of it indeed so good that an editor feels at times a doubt as to his having done wisely in letting it go unrepresented . Yet , though it may be good in ...
... poor that they are not found here . On the contrary , it is often very good - some of it indeed so good that an editor feels at times a doubt as to his having done wisely in letting it go unrepresented . Yet , though it may be good in ...
Page 22
... poor alone can know , The proud alone can feel ; He kept his honesty and truth , His independent tongue and pen , And moved , in manhood as in youth , Pride of his fellow - men . Strong sense , deep feeling , passions strong , A [ 22 ] ...
... poor alone can know , The proud alone can feel ; He kept his honesty and truth , His independent tongue and pen , And moved , in manhood as in youth , Pride of his fellow - men . Strong sense , deep feeling , passions strong , A [ 22 ] ...
Page 100
... poor whimpering hound Trembled to walk on . " Oft to his frozen lair Tracked I the grisly bear , While from my path the hare Fled like a shadow ; Oft through the forest dark Followed the were - wolf's bark , Until the soaring lark Sang ...
... poor whimpering hound Trembled to walk on . " Oft to his frozen lair Tracked I the grisly bear , While from my path the hare Fled like a shadow ; Oft through the forest dark Followed the were - wolf's bark , Until the soaring lark Sang ...
Page 124
... poor protection , And Christ himself doth rule . In that great cloister's stillness and seclusion , By guardian angels led , Safe from temptation , safe from sin's pollution , She lives , whom we call dead , Day after day we think what ...
... poor protection , And Christ himself doth rule . In that great cloister's stillness and seclusion , By guardian angels led , Safe from temptation , safe from sin's pollution , She lives , whom we call dead , Day after day we think what ...
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