American Poems (1625-1892)Walter Cochrane Bronson University of Chicago Press, 1912 - 669 pages |
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... shore , Where nought but bruits and salvage wights did swarm ( Untaught , untrain'd , untam'd by vertue's lore ) , That sought their blood , yet could not do them harm ? 10 My fury's flaile them thresht , my fatall broom Did sweep them ...
... shore , Where nought but bruits and salvage wights did swarm ( Untaught , untrain'd , untam'd by vertue's lore ) , That sought their blood , yet could not do them harm ? 10 My fury's flaile them thresht , my fatall broom Did sweep them ...
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... the empty skiff salutes the shore In with impetuous haste they clustering pour ; The men the head , the stern the ladies grace , And neighing horses fill the middle space . 40 45 Sunk deep , the boat floats slow the waves along ANONYMOUS ...
... the empty skiff salutes the shore In with impetuous haste they clustering pour ; The men the head , the stern the ladies grace , And neighing horses fill the middle space . 40 45 Sunk deep , the boat floats slow the waves along ANONYMOUS ...
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... shore and leave the threat'ning tide , While to receive the pay the boat - man stands , And chinking pennys jingle in his hands . Eager the sparks assault the waiting cars , Fops meet with fops and clash in civil wars : Off fly the wigs ...
... shore and leave the threat'ning tide , While to receive the pay the boat - man stands , And chinking pennys jingle in his hands . Eager the sparks assault the waiting cars , Fops meet with fops and clash in civil wars : Off fly the wigs ...
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... shore ; But ' ere he the mid - stream gain'd , a poignant pain Shot thro ' his well - strung nerves , contracting all , And the stiff joints refus'd their wonted aid . Loudly he cry'd for help : Arsaces heard , And 58 AMERICAN POEMS.
... shore ; But ' ere he the mid - stream gain'd , a poignant pain Shot thro ' his well - strung nerves , contracting all , And the stiff joints refus'd their wonted aid . Loudly he cry'd for help : Arsaces heard , And 58 AMERICAN POEMS.
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... shore , ΙΟ 15 As she play'd with the flood , as she play'd with the flood . 20 The guards of the camp , on that dark , dreary night , Had a murderous will , had a murderous will : They took him and bore him afar from the shore , To a ...
... shore , ΙΟ 15 As she play'd with the flood , as she play'd with the flood . 20 The guards of the camp , on that dark , dreary night , Had a murderous will , had a murderous will : They took him and bore him afar from the shore , To a ...
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Page 175 - 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 glides Into his darker musings, with a mild And healing sympathy, that steals away Their sharpness, ere he is aware.
Page 235 - Still heard in his soul the music Of wonderful melodies. Such songs have power to quiet The restless pulse of care, And come like the benediction That follows after prayer. Then read from the treasured volume The poem of thy choice, And lend to the rhyme of the poet The beauty of thy voice. And the night shall be filled with music, And the cares that infest the day Shall fold their tents, like the Arabs, And as silently steal away.
Page 205 - To Helen Helen, thy beauty is to me Like those Nicean barks of yore, That gently, o'er a perfumed sea, The weary, way-worn wanderer bore To his own native shore. On desperate seas long wont to roam, Thy hyacinth hair, thy classic face, Thy Naiad airs have brought me home To the glory that was Greece, And the grandeur that was Rome. Lo! in yon brilliant window-niche How statue-like I see thee stand, The agate lamp within thy hand! Ah, Psyche, from the regions which Are Holy Land! Israfel And the angel...
Page 499 - He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored ; He hath loosed the fateful lightning of his terrible swift sword: His truth is marching on. I have seen him in the watch-fires of a hundred circling camps; They have builded him an altar in the evening dews and damps; I can read his righteous sentence by the dim and flaring lamps: His day is marching on. I have read a fiery gospel, writ in...
Page 405 - And what is so rare as a day in June? Then, if ever, come perfect days; Then Heaven tries earth if it be in tune, And over it softly her warm ear lays ; Whether we look, or whether we listen, We hear life murmur, or see it glisten; Every clod feels a stir of might, An instinct within it that reaches and towers, 40 And, groping blindly above it for light, Climbs to a soul in grass and flowers...
Page 215 - This I sat engaged in guessing, but no syllable expressing To the fowl whose fiery eyes now burned into my bosom's core; This and more I sat divining, with my head at ease reclining On the cushion's velvet lining that the lamplight gloated o'er, But whose velvet violet lining with the lamplight gloating o'er She shall press, ah, nevermore! Then, methought, the air grew denser, perfumed from an unseen censer Swung by seraphim whose footfalls tinkled on the tufted floor. "Wretch...
Page 550 - But oft, in lonely rooms, and 'mid the din Of towns and cities, I have owed to them In hours of weariness, sensations sweet, Felt in the blood, and felt along the heart; And passing even into my purer mind. With tranquil restoration...
Page 179 - midst falling dew, While glow the heavens with the last steps of day, Far, through their rosy depths, dost thou pursue Thy solitary way ? Vainly the fowler's eye Might mark thy distant flight to do thee wrong, As, darkly painted on the crimson sky, Thy figure floats along.
Page 215 - Much I marvelled this ungainly fowl to hear discourse so plainly, Though its answer little meaning — little relevancy bore; For we cannot help agreeing that no living human being Ever yet was blessed with seeing bird above his chamber door, Bird or beast upon the sculptured bust above his chamber door, With such name as "Nevermore.
Page 175 - To be a brother to the insensible rock And to the sluggish clod, which the rude swain Turns with his share, and treads upon. The oak Shall send his roots abroad, and pierce thy mould.