American Poems (1625-1892)Walter Cochrane Bronson University of Chicago Press, 1912 - 669 pages |
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... soon untie : The Greeks did nought but play the fools & lye . 20 25 25 30 tut , wit ! 35 Let Greeks be Greeks , and women what they are , Men have precedency and still excell : It is but vain unjustly to wage warre ; Men can do best ...
... soon untie : The Greeks did nought but play the fools & lye . 20 25 25 30 tut , wit ! 35 Let Greeks be Greeks , and women what they are , Men have precedency and still excell : It is but vain unjustly to wage warre ; Men can do best ...
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... soon assents ; Their method was that of the Elements , That each should tell what of himself he knew , Both good and bad , but yet no more then ' s true . With heed now stood three ages of frail man To hear the child , who , crying ...
... soon assents ; Their method was that of the Elements , That each should tell what of himself he knew , Both good and bad , but yet no more then ' s true . With heed now stood three ages of frail man To hear the child , who , crying ...
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... soon appear'd . But Xerxes resolute to Thrace goes first : 25 His Host all Lissus drinks to quench their thirst ; And for his Cattel all Pissyrus Lake Was scarce enough for each a draught to take . Then marching on to th ' streight ...
... soon appear'd . But Xerxes resolute to Thrace goes first : 25 His Host all Lissus drinks to quench their thirst ; And for his Cattel all Pissyrus Lake Was scarce enough for each a draught to take . Then marching on to th ' streight ...
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... SOON AFTER THE DECEASE OF HIS EXCELLENT AND VERTUOUS WIFE , MRS . ABIGAIL MATHER . Sir , after you have wip'd the eyes Of thousands in their miseries , And oft condoled the heavy Fates Of those that have surviv'd their mates , 1703 It's ...
... SOON AFTER THE DECEASE OF HIS EXCELLENT AND VERTUOUS WIFE , MRS . ABIGAIL MATHER . Sir , after you have wip'd the eyes Of thousands in their miseries , And oft condoled the heavy Fates Of those that have surviv'd their mates , 1703 It's ...
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... soon a fresh supply Of Cloaths from Stoar - house kept hard by , I mounted streight on such a Steed Did rather curb than whipping need , And , straining at the usual rate , With spur of Punch which lay in Pate , E'er long we lighted at ...
... soon a fresh supply Of Cloaths from Stoar - house kept hard by , I mounted streight on such a Steed Did rather curb than whipping need , And , straining at the usual rate , With spur of Punch which lay in Pate , E'er long we lighted at ...
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Page 507 - 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 211 - 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 381 - 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 221 - 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 558 - 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 220 - Then this ebony bird beguiling my sad fancy into smiling By the grave and stern decorum of the countenance it wore,— " Though thy crest be shorn and shaven, thou," I said, " art sure no craven, Ghastly grim and ancient Raven wandering from the Nightly shore: Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night's Plutonian shore !" Quoth the Raven,
Page 221 - 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 228 - With a love that the winged seraphs of heaven Coveted her and me. And this was the reason that, long ago. In this kingdom by the sea...
Page 227 - Iron bells! What a world of solemn thought their monody compels! In the silence of the night, How we shiver with affright At the melancholy menace of their tone! For every sound that floats From the rust within their throats Is a groan.
Page 507 - Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord: 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.