American PoetryPercy Holmes Boynton, Howard Mumford Jones, George Sherburn, Frank Martindale Webster C. Scribner's sons, 1918 - 721 pages |
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... leaves & fruits seem'd painted , but was true Of green , of red , of yellow , mixed hew , Rapt were my sences at this delectable view . 2 I wist not what to wish , yet sure thought I , If so much excellence abide below ; How excellent ...
... leaves & fruits seem'd painted , but was true Of green , of red , of yellow , mixed hew , Rapt were my sences at this delectable view . 2 I wist not what to wish , yet sure thought I , If so much excellence abide below ; How excellent ...
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... leaves in th ' woods , the hail or drops of rain , Or in a corn - field number every grain , Or every mote that in the sun - shine hops , May count my sighs , and number all my drops : 20 Tell him , the countless steps that thou dost ...
... leaves in th ' woods , the hail or drops of rain , Or in a corn - field number every grain , Or every mote that in the sun - shine hops , May count my sighs , and number all my drops : 20 Tell him , the countless steps that thou dost ...
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... Leaves ; 69 Evolving Odours fill the ambient Air , The Birds delighted to the Groves repair : On ev'ry Tree behold a tuneful Throng , The vocal Vallies echo to their Song . But what is He , 1 who perch'd above the rest , Pours out such ...
... Leaves ; 69 Evolving Odours fill the ambient Air , The Birds delighted to the Groves repair : On ev'ry Tree behold a tuneful Throng , The vocal Vallies echo to their Song . But what is He , 1 who perch'd above the rest , Pours out such ...
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... Leaves disclose ; The tender Leaves in downy Robes ap- pear , Trembling , they seem to move with cau- tious Fear , Yet new to Life , and Strangers to the Air . Here stately Pines unite their whisp'ring Heads , 130 And with a solemn ...
... Leaves disclose ; The tender Leaves in downy Robes ap- pear , Trembling , they seem to move with cau- tious Fear , Yet new to Life , and Strangers to the Air . Here stately Pines unite their whisp'ring Heads , 130 And with a solemn ...
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... Leaves : Thro ' lonely Wilds his tedious Journey lies , At last a brighter Prospect cheers his Eyes , Now the gay Fields of Poetry he views , And joyous listens to the tuneful Muse ; Now History affords him vast Delight , And opens ...
... Leaves : Thro ' lonely Wilds his tedious Journey lies , At last a brighter Prospect cheers his Eyes , Now the gay Fields of Poetry he views , And joyous listens to the tuneful Muse ; Now History affords him vast Delight , And opens ...
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ANNABEL LEE Anne Bradstreet arms Atlantic Monthly beauty bells beneath bird brave breast breath bright clouds dark dead dear death deep doth dream earth eyes face fair fame fate fear fight fire Fitz-Greene Halleck flame flowers forest freedom Freeman's Journal friends glory grace Graham's Magazine grave green hand hast hath hear heard heart heaven Hiawatha hills JOSEPH RODMAN DRAKE King land laugh leaves light live look Lord maize mighty Mondamin moon morning mountain Muse never night Nokomis o'er Osawatomie peace Philip Freneau poem poet proud rise round sail shade shadow shine shore silent sing skies sleep smile song soul sound spirit stars stream strong sweet thee thet thine things thou thought throne toil trees verse voice W. D. Howells wave wild wind wings wonder woods words York Evening Post
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Page 234 - This 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 234 - Perched upon a bust of Pallas just above my chamber door Perched, and sat, and nothing more. 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!
Page 236 - Hear the sledges with the bells, Silver bells! What a world of merriment their melody foretells.' How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle, In the icy air of night! While the stars, that oversprinkle All the heavens, seem to twinkle With a crystalline delight; Keeping time, time, time, In a sort of Runic rhyme, To the tintinnabulation that so musically wells From the bells, bells, bells, bells, Bells, bells, bells From the jingling and the tinkling of the bells.
Page 233 - December, And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor. Eagerly I wished the morrow ; vainly I had sought to borrow From my books surcease of sorrow sorrow for the lost Lenore For the rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore Nameless here for evermore.
Page 235 - Quaff, oh quaff this kind nepenthe, and forget this lost Lenore !" Quoth the Raven, "Nevermore." "Prophet!" said I, "thing of evil! prophet still, if bird or devil! Whether Tempter sent, or whether tempest tossed thee here ashore, Desolate yet all undaunted, on this desert land enchanted On this home by Horror haunted tell me truly, I implore : Is there is there balm in Gilead? tell me tell me, I implore!
Page 269 - 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 178 - And now, when comes the calm mild day, as still such days will come, To call the squirrel and the bee from out their winter home ; When the sound of dropping nuts is heard, though all the trees are still, And twinkle in the smoky light the waters of the rill, The south wind searches for the flowers whose fragrance late he bore, And sighs to find them in the wood and by the stream no more.
Page 238 - I was a child and she was a child In this kingdom by the sea. But we loved with a love that was more than love I and my Annabel Lee 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 169 - Or lose thyself in the continuous woods Where rolls the Oregon, and hears no sound, Save his own dashings yet the dead are there: And millions in those solitudes, since first The flight of years began, have laid them down In their last sleep the dead reign there alone.
Page 256 - BLESSINGS on thee, little man, Barefoot boy, with cheek of tan ! With thy turned-up pantaloons, And thy merry whistled tunes ; With thy red lip, redder still Kissed by strawberries on the hill ; With the sunshine on thy face, Through thy torn brim's jaunty grace ; From my heart I give thee joy, I was once a barefoot boy ! Prince thou art, the grown-up man Only is republican.