The Chief American Poets: Selected Poems by Bryant, Poe, Emerson, Longfellow, Whittier, Holmes, Lowell, Whitman and Lanier; Ed., with Notes, Reference Lists and Biographical Sketches |
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... grave , Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch 80 About him , and lies down to pleasant dreams . 1811 ? 50 Of morning , pierce the Barcan wilderness , Or lose thyself in the continuous woods Where rolls the Oregon , and hears no ...
... grave , Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch 80 About him , and lies down to pleasant dreams . 1811 ? 50 Of morning , pierce the Barcan wilderness , Or lose thyself in the continuous woods Where rolls the Oregon , and hears no ...
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... grave their priests go out , till none 61 Is left to teach their worship ; then the fires Of sacrifice are chilled , and the green moss O'ercreeps their altars ; the fallen images Cumber the weedy courts , and for loud hymns , Chanted ...
... grave their priests go out , till none 61 Is left to teach their worship ; then the fires Of sacrifice are chilled , and the green moss O'ercreeps their altars ; the fallen images Cumber the weedy courts , and for loud hymns , Chanted ...
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... grave who taught my youth The art of verse , and in the bud of life Offered me to the Muses . Oh , cut off 139 Untimely when thy reason in its strength , Ripened by years of toil and studious search , And watch of Nature's silent ...
... grave who taught my youth The art of verse , and in the bud of life Offered me to the Muses . Oh , cut off 139 Untimely when thy reason in its strength , Ripened by years of toil and studious search , And watch of Nature's silent ...
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... grave - this- and the hope To copy thy example , and to leave 151 A name of which the wretched shall not think As of an enemy's , whom they forgive As all forgive the dead . Rest , therefore , thou Whose early guidance trained my infant ...
... grave - this- and the hope To copy thy example , and to leave 151 A name of which the wretched shall not think As of an enemy's , whom they forgive As all forgive the dead . Rest , therefore , thou Whose early guidance trained my infant ...
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... grave ; And there they laid her , in the very garb With which the maiden decked herself for death , With the same withering wild - flowers in her hair , And o'er the mould that covered her , the tribe Built up a simple monument , a cone ...
... grave ; And there they laid her , in the very garb With which the maiden decked herself for death , With the same withering wild - flowers in her hair , And o'er the mould that covered her , the tribe Built up a simple monument , a cone ...
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Acadian beauty bells beneath birds breath cloud dark dead dear death dream earth edition Emerson eyes face fair feel feet flowers forest gleam golden Goody Cole grave gray green hand hath hear heard heart heaven Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Hiawatha hills Holmes James Russell Lowell John Greenleaf Whittier Kenabeek land laugh leaves Leaves of Grass light lips living Longfellow look Lowell maiden meadow Mondamin morning mountain never night Nokomis o'er Oliver Wendell Holmes Osseo Pau-Puk-Keewis poem poet prayer river rose round sail seemed shadow shining shore Sidney Lanier silent sing smile snow song soul sound Specimen Days spirit stars stood strong summer sweet thee thet thine things thou thought trees verse voice Walt Whitman wandering waves Whittier wigwam wild wind woods words young