The Courtship of Miles Standish: And Other PoemsUniversity Publishing, 1901 - 142 pages |
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Page xvi
... stand out in all the stronger relief because of this contrast with their surroundings . Just as the little may- flower ( our trailing arbutus ) is all the sweeter and more pre- cious because it blooms among the rocks and dying leaves ...
... stand out in all the stronger relief because of this contrast with their surroundings . Just as the little may- flower ( our trailing arbutus ) is all the sweeter and more pre- cious because it blooms among the rocks and dying leaves ...
Page xxiii
... stands the test . The contrast between the robust , active soldier and the refined , dreamy scholar is so great that we never seriously expect a tragedy . The author avoids too serious a tone because that would have been out of keeping ...
... stands the test . The contrast between the robust , active soldier and the refined , dreamy scholar is so great that we never seriously expect a tragedy . The author avoids too serious a tone because that would have been out of keeping ...
Page xl
... stands forth as a rep- resentative poet of our earlier period , because he drew the inspiration for his best work from motives lying ready to hand in his own country . Neither Whittier nor Holmes , neither Emerson nor Lowell , are more ...
... stands forth as a rep- resentative poet of our earlier period , because he drew the inspiration for his best work from motives lying ready to hand in his own country . Neither Whittier nor Holmes , neither Emerson nor Lowell , are more ...
Page xli
... stand its language . - EDWARD E. HALE , JR . 66 THE METER . The poet's friends told him he must take a familiar meter , that hexameters " would never do . " He found , as reported by David Machrae , that his " thoughts would run in ...
... stand its language . - EDWARD E. HALE , JR . 66 THE METER . The poet's friends told him he must take a familiar meter , that hexameters " would never do . " He found , as reported by David Machrae , that his " thoughts would run in ...
Page 11
... stand still in his bosom , Just as a timepiece stops in a house that is stricken by light- ning , Thus made answer and spake , or rather stammered than answered : 75 " Such a message as that , I am sure I should mangle and mar it ; If ...
... stand still in his bosom , Just as a timepiece stops in a house that is stricken by light- ning , Thus made answer and spake , or rather stammered than answered : 75 " Such a message as that , I am sure I should mangle and mar it ; If ...
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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