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... blossoms ; if they wear One streak of morn or evening's glow , Accept them ; but to me more fair The buds of song that never blow . April 8 , 1862 . EARLIER POEMS 1830-1836 OLD IRONSIDES This was the popular name xiv TO MY READERS.
... blossoms ; if they wear One streak of morn or evening's glow , Accept them ; but to me more fair The buds of song that never blow . April 8 , 1862 . EARLIER POEMS 1830-1836 OLD IRONSIDES This was the popular name xiv TO MY READERS.
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... and shrill ; I think there is a knot of you Beneath the hollow tree , A knot of spinster Katydids , Do Katydids drink tea ? Oh tell me where did Katy live , And what did Katy do ? And was she fair and young , very And yet TO AN INSECT 9.
... and shrill ; I think there is a knot of you Beneath the hollow tree , A knot of spinster Katydids , Do Katydids drink tea ? Oh tell me where did Katy live , And what did Katy do ? And was she fair and young , very And yet TO AN INSECT 9.
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And was she fair and young , very And yet so wicked , too ? Did Katy love a naughty man , Or kiss more cheeks than one ? I warrant Katy did no more Than many a Kate has done . Dear me ! I'll tell you all about My fuss with little Jane ...
And was she fair and young , very And yet so wicked , too ? Did Katy love a naughty man , Or kiss more cheeks than one ? I warrant Katy did no more Than many a Kate has done . Dear me ! I'll tell you all about My fuss with little Jane ...
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... fair , Give her blue eyes and golden hair . I might have liked her judgment well , But , as she spoke , she rung the bell , And all her girls , nor small nor few , Came marching in , their eyes were blue . — I asked a maiden ; back she ...
... fair , Give her blue eyes and golden hair . I might have liked her judgment well , But , as she spoke , she rung the bell , And all her girls , nor small nor few , Came marching in , their eyes were blue . — I asked a maiden ; back she ...
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... to see Love , hopes , and friendship , centring all in thee ! And thou , my village ! as again I tread Amidst thy living and above thy dead ; Though some fair playmates guard with chaster fears Their cheeks POETRY : A METRICAL ESSAY 43.
... to see Love , hopes , and friendship , centring all in thee ! And thou , my village ! as again I tread Amidst thy living and above thy dead ; Though some fair playmates guard with chaster fears Their cheeks POETRY : A METRICAL ESSAY 43.
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arms beneath BERKSHIRE blazoned blossoms blue blush boys breast breath bright burning CHARLES WENTWORTH UPHAM cheek cheerful circling band crown dark dead dear dream dust earth eyes faded fair falchion flame flow flowers fold gathered gleam glittering band glow golden grave gray green hand hear heart Heaven hour JAMES FREEMAN CLARKE Katydid laugh leaves life's light lips listening living look lyre memory morning never nurslings o'er once peaceful percussion cap PHI BETA KAPPA plain rhyme rills ring Rip Van Winkle roll rose round shadows shine shining days shore sigh silent sing skies sleep slumbering smile snow song soul spring stars stethoscope strain stream sweet tears tell thee thine thou throbbing toil tongue tread trembling turn voice wandering warm waves whisper wild wine wings young youth
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Page 421 - Drawn by a rat-tailed, ewe-necked bay. "Huddup!" said the parson. Off went they. The parson was working his Sunday's text — Had got to fifthly, and stopped perplexed At what the — Moses — was coming next. All at once the horse stood still, Close by the meet'n'house on the hill. First a shiver, and then a thrill, Then something decidedly like a spill, And the parson was sitting upon a rock, At half past nine by the meet'n'house clock, Just the hour of the earthquake shock!
Page 419 - So the Deacon inquired of the village folk Where he could find the strongest oak, That couldn't be split nor bent nor broke — That was for spokes and floor and sills; He sent for lancewood to make the thills; The crossbars were ash, from the straightest trees; The panels of whitewood, that cuts like cheese, But lasts like iron for things like these; The hubs of logs from the "Settler's ellum...
Page 2 - The mossy marbles rest On the lips that he has prest In their bloom, And the names he loved to hear Have been carved for many a year On the tomb.
Page 1 - I saw him once before, As he passed by the door, And again The pavement stones resound, As he totters o'er the ground With his cane. They say that in his prime, Ere the pruning-knife of Time Cut him down, Not a better man was found By the Crier on his round Through the town.
Page 393 - This is the ship of pearl, which, poets feign, Sails the unshadowed main; The venturous bark that flings On the sweet summer wind its purpled wings In gulfs enchanted, where the siren sings And coral reefs lie bare, Where the cold sea-maids rise to sun their streaming Lair.
Page 419 - they called it then. Eighteen hundred and twenty came: — Running as usual, much the same. Thirty and forty at last arrive ; And then came fifty -and fifty-five. Little of all we value here Wakes on the morn of its hundredth year Without both feeling and looking queer.
Page 247 - The wild-flowers who will stoop to number ? A few can touch the magic string, And noisy Fame is proud to win them : — Alas for those that never sing, But die with all their music in them I Nay, grieve not for the dead alone Whose song has told their hearts...