American poems. With short biogr. notices of the most celebrated American authors1878 |
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... hold their bones- The platforms where they worshipped unknown gods— The barriers which they builded from the soil To keep the foe at bay - till o'er the walls The wild beleaguerers broke , and , one by one , The strongholds of the plain ...
... hold their bones- The platforms where they worshipped unknown gods— The barriers which they builded from the soil To keep the foe at bay - till o'er the walls The wild beleaguerers broke , and , one by one , The strongholds of the plain ...
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American poems. THANATOPSIS . To him who in the love of Nature holds Communion with her visible forms , she speaks A various language ; for his gayer hours She has a voice of gladness , and a smile And eloquence of beauty ; and she ...
American poems. THANATOPSIS . To him who in the love of Nature holds Communion with her visible forms , she speaks A various language ; for his gayer hours She has a voice of gladness , and a smile And eloquence of beauty ; and she ...
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... hold Them and their children in long servitude . " Thou shalt bear record that the hour is nigh ; The white and bearded men whose grim array Swept o'er thy sight are those who are to come , And with strong arms , and wisdom stronger far ...
... hold Them and their children in long servitude . " Thou shalt bear record that the hour is nigh ; The white and bearded men whose grim array Swept o'er thy sight are those who are to come , And with strong arms , and wisdom stronger far ...
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... Hold all the hidden wonders In scanty intervals . Alas , the sprite that haunts us Deceives our rash desire ; It whispers of the glorious gods , And leaves us in the mire . We cannot learn the cipher That's writ upon our cell ; Stars ...
... Hold all the hidden wonders In scanty intervals . Alas , the sprite that haunts us Deceives our rash desire ; It whispers of the glorious gods , And leaves us in the mire . We cannot learn the cipher That's writ upon our cell ; Stars ...
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... like the flood's foam ; The lawyer , and the laws , And the kingdom , Clean swept herefrom . They called me theirs , Who so controlled me ; Yet every one Wished to stay , and is gone . How am I theirs , If they cannot hold me 68 EMERSON .
... like the flood's foam ; The lawyer , and the laws , And the kingdom , Clean swept herefrom . They called me theirs , Who so controlled me ; Yet every one Wished to stay , and is gone . How am I theirs , If they cannot hold me 68 EMERSON .
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Page 10 - midst falling dew, While glow the heavens with the last steps of day, Far, through their rosy depths, dost thou pursue Thy solitary way...
Page 204 - And this maiden she lived with no other thought Than to love and be loved by me. I was a child and she was a child, In this kingdom by the sea, But we loved with a love that was more than love, I and my Annabel Lee; With a love that the winged seraphs of heaven Coveted her and me.
Page 281 - THERE was a child went forth every day, And the first object he look'd upon, that object he became, And that object became part of him for the day or a certain part of the day, Or for many years or stretching cycles of years.
Page 226 - Startled at the stillness broken by reply so aptly spoken, "Doubtless," said I, "what it utters is its only stock and store, Caught from some unhappy master whom unmerciful Disaster Followed fast and followed faster till his songs one burden bore: Till the dirges of his Hope that melancholy burden bore Of 'Never — nevermore.
Page 15 - Thou shalt lie down With patriarchs of the infant world — with kings, The powerful of the earth — the wise, the good, Fair forms, and hoary seers of ages past, All in one mighty sepulcher.
Page 203 - IT WAS many and many a year ago, In a kingdom by the sea, That a maiden there lived whom you may know By the name of ANNABEL LEE; And this maiden she lived with no other thought Than to love and be loved by me.
Page 223 - Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and. curious volume of forgotten lore — While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door. " "Tis some visitor," I muttered, "tapping at my chamber door — Only this and nothing more.
Page 16 - So live, that when thy summons comes to join The innumerable caravan, that moves To that mysterious realm, where each shall take His chamber in the silent halls of death, Thou go not, like the quarry-slave at night, Scourged to his dungeon, but, sustained and soothed By an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave, Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams.
Page 323 - For you they call, the swaying mass, their eager faces turning; Here Captain! dear father! This arm beneath your head! It is some dream that on the deck You've fallen cold and dead. My Captain does not answer, his lips are pale and still, My father does not feel my arm, he has no pulse nor will, The ship is...
Page 216 - The skies they were ashen and sober; The leaves they were crisped and sere — The leaves they were withering and sere; It was night in the lonesome October Of my most immemorial year...