American Poets and Their TheologyGriffith and Rowland Press, 1916 - 485 pages |
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... true greatness of the Yankee ..... 284 stock ... These dialect poems first made him famous 285 Appointed professor in Harvard College His " Commemoration Ode " and " Concord ...... 289 Bridge " 291 Second marriage , and editorship of ...
... true greatness of the Yankee ..... 284 stock ... These dialect poems first made him famous 285 Appointed professor in Harvard College His " Commemoration Ode " and " Concord ...... 289 Bridge " 291 Second marriage , and editorship of ...
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... 423 Free - verse is not necessarily poetry ... ... 423 It needs to have a true philosophy underlying it . 424 The early life of Whitman as a preparation for his writing 425 xxii CONTENTS His tour of our Southern States , and.
... 423 Free - verse is not necessarily poetry ... ... 423 It needs to have a true philosophy underlying it . 424 The early life of Whitman as a preparation for his writing 425 xxii CONTENTS His tour of our Southern States , and.
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... true father of American literature , the first real poet of our Western world . We wonder when we see the sun of Homer rising upon the darkness of Hellenic times ; we may quite as justly wonder when we find the bizarre and tasteless ...
... true father of American literature , the first real poet of our Western world . We wonder when we see the sun of Homer rising upon the darkness of Hellenic times ; we may quite as justly wonder when we find the bizarre and tasteless ...
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... true standard . He did not cater to popular taste , but aimed to form that taste . Not simply news , but leadership ; not mere reflection of the good and evil of the day , but incul- cation of right views in politics , art , and conduct ...
... true standard . He did not cater to popular taste , but aimed to form that taste . Not simply news , but leadership ; not mere reflection of the good and evil of the day , but incul- cation of right views in politics , art , and conduct ...
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... true life , derived from the divine source of life , and sustained thereby . The solemn joy of Bryant has its analogue , not in the noc- turne of Chopin , but in the largo of Handel . Our poet saw God in the beauty and grandeur of the ...
... true life , derived from the divine source of life , and sustained thereby . The solemn joy of Bryant has its analogue , not in the noc- turne of Chopin , but in the largo of Handel . Our poet saw God in the beauty and grandeur of the ...
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American Annabel Lee beauty believe Biglow Bryant called Calvinism Christ Christian criticism dear death declares divine doctrine dream earth Emerson eternal ethical evil expression eyes faith father freedom gave genius George William Curtis gift give God's hath heart heaven Holmes Holmes's holy hope human hymn immortality influence intuitionalism JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Jesus Lanier Leaves of Grass light literary literature live Longfellow Lord Lowell Lowell's man's Marshes of Glynn melody mind moral nature ness never o'er Oliver Wendell Holmes pantheistic passion Poe's poet poet's poetical poetry praise prayer prose Puritan Quaker religion religious revelation Scripture seems Sir Launfal song sorrow soul spirit stars suffering sweet thee theism theology thet thine things thou thought tion true truth Unitarian universe utterance verse voice Walt Walt Whitman Whitman Whittier words writes wrote youth
Popular passages
Page 200 - Be that word our sign of parting, bird or fiend ! " I shrieked, upstarting, — " Get thee back into the tempest and the Night's Plutonian shore ! Leave no black plume as a token of that lie thy soul hath spoken ! Leave my loneliness unbroken ! — quit the bust above my door ! Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door ! " Quoth the Raven,
Page 437 - 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 241 - STRONG Son of God, immortal Love, Whom we, that have not seen thy face, By faith, and faith alone, embrace, Believing where we cannot prove; Thine are these orbs of light and shade; Thou madest Life in man and brute ; Thou madest Death; and lo, thy foot Is on the skull which thou hast made.
Page 88 - If the red slayer think he slays, Or if the slain think he is slain, They know not well the subtle ways I keep, and pass, and turn again.
Page 340 - 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 hair.
Page 195 - In a mad expostulation with the deaf and frantic fire Leaping higher, higher, higher, With a desperate desire, And a resolute endeavor, Now — now to sit or never, By the side of the pale-faced moon. Oh, the bells, bells, bells! What a tale their terror tells Of despair!
Page 247 - Down the dark future, through long generations, The echoing sounds grow fainter and then cease; And like a bell, with solemn, sweet vibrations, I hear once more the voice of Christ say, "Peace !" Peace ! and no longer from its brazen portals The blast of War's great organ shakes the skies ! But beautiful as songs of the immortals, The holy melodies of love arise.
Page 199 - Open here I flung the shutter, when, with many a flirt and flutter In there stepped a stately Raven of the saintly days of yore. Not the least obeisance made he; not a minute stopped or stayed he; But, with mien of lord or lady, perched above my chamber door— Perched upon a bust of Pallas just above my chamber door— Perched, and sat, and nothing more.
Page 156 - I long for household voices gone, For vanished smiles I long, But God hath led my dear ones on, And He can do no wrong. I know not what the future hath Of marvel or surprise, Assured alone that life and death His mercy underlies.
Page 246 - Thou, too, sail on, O Ship of State ! Sail on, O UNION, strong and great! Humanity with all its fears, With all the hopes of future years, . ' Is hanging breathless on thy fate...