Yale Book of American VerseThomas Raynesford Lounsbury Yale University Press, 1912 - 570 pages |
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Page 17
... round table , Of Bailie Jarvie , not Rob Roy : " T is what " our President " Monroe Has called " the era of good feeling " : The Highlander , the bitterest foe To modern laws , has felt their blow , Consented to be taxed , and vote ...
... round table , Of Bailie Jarvie , not Rob Roy : " T is what " our President " Monroe Has called " the era of good feeling " : The Highlander , the bitterest foe To modern laws , has felt their blow , Consented to be taxed , and vote ...
Page 24
... by the Doon's low trees , And pastoral Nith , and wooded Ayr , And round thy sepulchres , Dumfries ! The poet's tomb is there . But what to them the sculptor's art , His funeral [ 24 ] FITZ - GREENE HALLECK 1790-1867.
... by the Doon's low trees , And pastoral Nith , and wooded Ayr , And round thy sepulchres , Dumfries ! The poet's tomb is there . But what to them the sculptor's art , His funeral [ 24 ] FITZ - GREENE HALLECK 1790-1867.
Page 37
... round all , Old Ocean's gray and melancholy waste , - Are but the solemn decorations all Of the great tomb of man ! The golden sun , The planets , all the infinite host of heaven , Are shining on the sad abodes of death , Through the ...
... round all , Old Ocean's gray and melancholy waste , - Are but the solemn decorations all Of the great tomb of man ! The golden sun , The planets , all the infinite host of heaven , Are shining on the sad abodes of death , Through the ...
Page 42
... great miracle that still goes on , In silence , round me - the perpetual work Of thy creation , finished , yet renewed Forever . Written on thy works I read The lesson of thy own eternity . Lo ! all [ 42 ] WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT 1794-1878.
... great miracle that still goes on , In silence , round me - the perpetual work Of thy creation , finished , yet renewed Forever . Written on thy works I read The lesson of thy own eternity . Lo ! all [ 42 ] WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT 1794-1878.
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... round , And thought that when I came to lie At rest within the ground , ' T were pleasant , that in flowery June , When brooks send up a cheerful tune , And groves a joyous sound , The sexton's hand , my grave to make , The rich , green ...
... round , And thought that when I came to lie At rest within the ground , ' T were pleasant , that in flowery June , When brooks send up a cheerful tune , And groves a joyous sound , The sexton's hand , my grave to make , The rich , green ...
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