Readings from American Literature: A Textbook for Schools and CollegesGinn, 1915 - 635 pages |
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... Beneath whose far projecting shade ( And which the shepherd still admires ) The children of the forest played . There oft a restless Indian queen ( Pale Shebah with 138 READINGS FROM AMERICAN LITERATURE The Indian Burying-Ground.
... Beneath whose far projecting shade ( And which the shepherd still admires ) The children of the forest played . There oft a restless Indian queen ( Pale Shebah with 138 READINGS FROM AMERICAN LITERATURE The Indian Burying-Ground.
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... forest shades , Bozzaris ranged his Suliote band , True as the steel of their tried blades , Heroes in heart and hand . There had the Persian's thousands stood , There had the glad earth drunk their blood On old Platæa's day ; And now ...
... forest shades , Bozzaris ranged his Suliote band , True as the steel of their tried blades , Heroes in heart and hand . There had the Persian's thousands stood , There had the glad earth drunk their blood On old Platæa's day ; And now ...
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... forest of the Hague , fabricated by an experienced timberman of Amsterdam , and curiously carved about the arms and feet , into exact imitations of gigantic eagle's claws . Instead of a sceptre , he swayed a long Turkish pipe , wrought ...
... forest of the Hague , fabricated by an experienced timberman of Amsterdam , and curiously carved about the arms and feet , into exact imitations of gigantic eagle's claws . Instead of a sceptre , he swayed a long Turkish pipe , wrought ...
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... forest , and sends forth yearly its legions of frontier woodmen and country schoolmasters . The cognomen of Crane was not inapplicable to his person . He was tall , but exceedingly lank , with narrow shoulders , long arms and legs ...
... forest , and sends forth yearly its legions of frontier woodmen and country schoolmasters . The cognomen of Crane was not inapplicable to his person . He was tall , but exceedingly lank , with narrow shoulders , long arms and legs ...
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... forests had put on their sober brown and yellow , while some trees of the tenderer kind had been nipped by the frosts into brilliant dyes of orange , purple , and scarlet . Streaming files of wild ducks began to make their appearance ...
... forests had put on their sober brown and yellow , while some trees of the tenderer kind had been nipped by the frosts into brilliant dyes of orange , purple , and scarlet . Streaming files of wild ducks began to make their appearance ...
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Page 565 - For you bouquets and ribbon'd wreaths— for you the shores a-crowding, 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.
Page 119 - Gentlemen may cry peace, peace, but there is no peace. The war is actually begun. The next gale that sweeps from the north will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms. Our brethren are already in the field. Why stand we here idle ? What is it that gentlemen wish ? What would they have ? Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery ? Forbid it, Almighty God ! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death...
Page 236 - rt gone, the abyss of heaven Hath swallowed up thy form ; yet, on my heart Deeply hath sunk the lesson thou hast given, And shall not soon depart. He who, from zone to zone, Guides through the boundless sky thy certain flight, In the long way that I must tread alone, Will lead my steps aright.
Page 448 - ANNOUNCED by all the trumpets of the sky, Arrives the snow, and, driving o'er the fields, Seems nowhere to alight: the whited air Hides hills and woods, the river, and the heaven, And veils the farm-house 'at the garden's end. The sled and traveller stopped, the courier's feet Delayed, all friends shut out, the housemates sit Around the radiant fireplace, enclosed In a tumultuous privacy of storm.
Page 470 - AY, tear her tattered ensign down ! Long has it waved on high, And many an eye has danced to see That banner in the sky; Beneath it rung the battle shout, And burst the cannon's roar; — The meteor of the ocean air Shall sweep the clouds no more. Her deck once red with heroes...
Page 237 - The wind-flower and the violet, they perished long ago, And the brier-rose and the orchis died amid the summer glow ; But on the hills the golden-rod, and the aster in the wood, And the yellow sun-flower by the brook in autumn beauty stood, Till fell the frost from the clear cold heaven, as falls the plague on men, And the brightness of their smile was gone, from upland, glade, and glen.
Page 250 - 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.'" But the Raven still beguiling all my sad soul into smiling, Straight I wheeled a cushioned seat in front of bird and bust and door; Then, upon the velvet sinking, I betook myself to linking Fancy unto fancy, thinking what this ominous bird of yore, What...
Page 478 - Before thee lies revealed, — Its irised ceiling rent, its sunless crypt unsealed! Year after year beheld the silent toil That spread his lustrous coil; Still, as the spiral grew, He left the past year's dwelling for the new, Stole with soft step its shining archway through, Built up its idle door, Stretched in his last-found home, and knew the old no more. Thanks for the heavenly message brought by thee, Child of the wandering sea, Cast from her lap, forlorn! From thy dead lips a clearer note is...
Page 122 - Still one thing more, fellow-citizens, a wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned.
Page 258 - 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 ! It is the tendency...