Yale Book of American VerseThomas R. Lounsbury Yale University Press, 1912 - 570 pages |
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Page xxvi
... fair degree of unanimity of opinion as to what pieces could be considered as most deserving of inclusion . As a matter of fact , nothing is more striking than the variations displayed in the selec- tions made . The discrepancies of ...
... fair degree of unanimity of opinion as to what pieces could be considered as most deserving of inclusion . As a matter of fact , nothing is more striking than the variations displayed in the selec- tions made . The discrepancies of ...
Page 37
... Fair forms , and hoary seers of ages past , All in one mighty sepulchre . The hills Rock - ribbed and ancient as the sun ; the vales Stretching in pensive quietness between ; The venerable woods - rivers that move In majesty , and the ...
... Fair forms , and hoary seers of ages past , All in one mighty sepulchre . The hills Rock - ribbed and ancient as the sun ; the vales Stretching in pensive quietness between ; The venerable woods - rivers that move In majesty , and the ...
Page 41
... fair ranks of trees . They , in thy sun , Budded , and shook their green leaves in thy breeze , And shot towards heaven . The century - living crow , Whose birth was in their tops , grew old and died Among their branches , till , at ...
... fair ranks of trees . They , in thy sun , Budded , and shook their green leaves in thy breeze , And shot towards heaven . The century - living crow , Whose birth was in their tops , grew old and died Among their branches , till , at ...
Page 47
... fair young flowers , that lately sprang and stood In brighter light and softer airs , a beauteous sisterhood ? Alas ! they all are in their graves , the gentle race of flowers Are lying in their lowly beds with the fair and good of ours ...
... fair young flowers , that lately sprang and stood In brighter light and softer airs , a beauteous sisterhood ? Alas ! they all are in their graves , the gentle race of flowers Are lying in their lowly beds with the fair and good of ours ...
Page 48
... fair meek blossom that grew up and faded by my side . In the cold moist earth we laid her , when the forests cast the leaf , And we wept that one so lovely should have a life so brief : Yet not unmeet it was that one , like that young ...
... fair meek blossom that grew up and faded by my side . In the cold moist earth we laid her , when the forests cast the leaf , And we wept that one so lovely should have a life so brief : Yet not unmeet it was that one , like that young ...
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