The Courtship of Miles Standish: And Other PoemsUniversity Publishing, 1901 - 142 pages |
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Page xv
... dead alluded to in the poem is explained by this quotation from Dr. Holmes : " Tradition gives us an affecting picture of the infant colony during this critical and distressing period . The dead were buried on the bank , at a little ...
... dead alluded to in the poem is explained by this quotation from Dr. Holmes : " Tradition gives us an affecting picture of the infant colony during this critical and distressing period . The dead were buried on the bank , at a little ...
Page xvii
... dead ; the well not sufficient to tend the sick , there being , in their time of greatest distress , but six or seven , who spare no pains to help them . " " The records are meager , but from what we know of condi- tions at Plymouth ...
... dead ; the well not sufficient to tend the sick , there being , in their time of greatest distress , but six or seven , who spare no pains to help them . " " The records are meager , but from what we know of condi- tions at Plymouth ...
Page xxviii
... dead Rose . Even in his armor he is not an imposing figure , nor one likely to impress a girl's imagination . He is too quick and abrupt in his movements , too self - assertive and violent , and has something very like the strut of the ...
... dead Rose . Even in his armor he is not an imposing figure , nor one likely to impress a girl's imagination . He is too quick and abrupt in his movements , too self - assertive and violent , and has something very like the strut of the ...
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... dead on a hill near the beach and left the graves unmarked , so that the weakness of the colony might not be perceived by the Indians . 2 Colonel William Barriffe's Militarie Discipline ; or , The Young Artillery Man , a work containing ...
... dead on a hill near the beach and left the graves unmarked , so that the weakness of the colony might not be perceived by the Indians . 2 Colonel William Barriffe's Militarie Discipline ; or , The Young Artillery Man , a work containing ...
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... dead , and now to the bed of the dying , 55 Patient , courageous , and strong , and said to myself , that if ever There were angels on earth , as there are angels in heaven , Two have I seen and known ; and the angel whose name is ...
... dead , and now to the bed of the dying , 55 Patient , courageous , and strong , and said to myself , that if ever There were angels on earth , as there are angels in heaven , Two have I seen and known ; and the angel whose name is ...
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accent Angels beautiful beheld Belfry of Bruges Bible breath Bruges Cæsar Captain of Plymouth church cilla colony Courtship of Miles dark dead death Elizabeth Appleton England English Evangeline Excelsior eyes feeling feet Flanders flowers forest Forever-never friendship Full Text gleam grave gray Guy de Dampierre hand heard heart HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW hexameters humor Indian John Alden Julius Cæsar land laugh light living long thoughts Longfellow look loud maiden Master matchlock Mayflower meter Miles Standish mist Never-forever night o'er ocean pause Pecksuot Pilgrims Plym Plymouth Plantation poem poet poet's poetic poetry prayer Priscilla Priscilla Mullens Psalm Published Puritan rain roar Rose sail Sandalphon sang shadows ship silent snow soldier song Song of Hiawatha sorrow sound spake stood story strong sweet Thereupon answered thoughts of youth unaccented syllable vessel village voice wife wind wind's words youth are long