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... land ; Mother and sister and child and wife And joy and sorrow and death and iife ! What if a hundred years ago Those close - shut lips had answered No , When forth the tremulous question came That cost the maiden her Norman name , And ...
... land ; Mother and sister and child and wife And joy and sorrow and death and iife ! What if a hundred years ago Those close - shut lips had answered No , When forth the tremulous question came That cost the maiden her Norman name , And ...
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... ages , brood over our land , if it could be accomplished , I will not attempt to portray . But do you fancy the blight would , in such an event , come to us alone ? The diminution of 40 [ 1835-60 JAMES HENRY HAMMOND .
... ages , brood over our land , if it could be accomplished , I will not attempt to portray . But do you fancy the blight would , in such an event , come to us alone ? The diminution of 40 [ 1835-60 JAMES HENRY HAMMOND .
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... land of ours . It requires no prophet to foresee the awful consequences of such an experiment on the lives , the liberties , the fortunes , and the morals of the people of the Southern States . Let us briefly notice some of these ...
... land of ours . It requires no prophet to foresee the awful consequences of such an experiment on the lives , the liberties , the fortunes , and the morals of the people of the Southern States . Let us briefly notice some of these ...
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... lands , like those of the British West Indies , would become almost valueless for the want of laborers to cultivate them . The most beautiful garden - spots of the sunny South would , in the course of a few years , be turned into a ...
... lands , like those of the British West Indies , would become almost valueless for the want of laborers to cultivate them . The most beautiful garden - spots of the sunny South would , in the course of a few years , be turned into a ...
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... land . There was no civil war in Jamaica , it is true , after the slaves were emancipated ; but this was because the power of Great Britain was over the two parties , and held them in subjection . It would be far otherwise here . For ...
... land . There was no civil war in Jamaica , it is true , after the slaves were emancipated ; but this was because the power of Great Britain was over the two parties , and held them in subjection . It would be far otherwise here . For ...
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Page 430 - THE snow had begun in the gloaming, And busily all the night Had been heaping field and highway With a silence deep and white. Every pine and fir and hemlock Wore ermine too dear for an earl, And the poorest twig on the elm-tree Was ridged inch deep with pearl.
Page 30 - 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 544 - The muffled drum's sad roll has beat The soldier's last tattoo; No more on life's parade shall meet That brave and fallen few. On Fame's eternal camping ground Their silent tents are spread, And glory guards, with solemn round, The bivouac of the dead.
Page 30 - 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 born Than ever Triton blew from wreathed horn! While on mine ear it rings, Through the deep caves of thought I hear a voice that sings: Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul, As the swift seasons roll!
Page 506 - ... 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 499 - I am the poet of the Body and I am the poet of the Soul, The pleasures of heaven are with me and the pains of hell are with me, The first I graft and increase upon myself, the latter I translate into a new tongue.
Page 529 - A whip for the horse, a bridle for the ass, and a rod for the fool's back.
Page 498 - A child said What is the grass? fetching it to me with full hands; How could I answer the child? I do not know what it is any more than he. I guess it must be the flag of my disposition, out of hopeful green stuff woven.
Page 502 - Once Paumanok, When the lilac-scent was in the air and Fifth-month grass was growing, Up this seashore in some briers, Two feather'd guests from Alabama, two together, And their nest, and four light-green eggs spotted with brown...
Page 417 - An' yit she gin her cheer a jerk Ez though she wished him furder, An' on her apples kep' to work, Parin