The Batsford Book of Country VerseSamuel Carr |
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... seems to have been , at least among us , the author of a species of local composition that may be de- nominated local poetry , of which the fundamental subject is some particular landscape , to be poetically described .... ' Yet to our ...
... seems to have been , at least among us , the author of a species of local composition that may be de- nominated local poetry , of which the fundamental subject is some particular landscape , to be poetically described .... ' Yet to our ...
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... Seem not so lovely as its quiet seems Doors are shut up as on a winters day And not a child about them lies at play The dust that winnows neath the breezes feet Is all that stirs about the silent street Fancy might think that desert ...
... Seem not so lovely as its quiet seems Doors are shut up as on a winters day And not a child about them lies at play The dust that winnows neath the breezes feet Is all that stirs about the silent street Fancy might think that desert ...
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... Seems nowhere to alight : the whited air Hides hills and woods , the river , and the heaven , And veils the farmhouse at the garden's end . The sled and traveller stopped , the courier's feet Delayed , all friends shut out , the ...
... Seems nowhere to alight : the whited air Hides hills and woods , the river , and the heaven , And veils the farmhouse at the garden's end . The sled and traveller stopped , the courier's feet Delayed , all friends shut out , the ...
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