American Lyric Poems, from Colonial Times to the PresentElder Olson |
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... beauty gay ; Here might the red - bird come his plumes to cool , And court the flower that cheapens his array . Rhodora ! if the sages ask thee why This charm is wasted on the earth and sky , Tell them , dear , that if eyes were made ...
... beauty gay ; Here might the red - bird come his plumes to cool , And court the flower that cheapens his array . Rhodora ! if the sages ask thee why This charm is wasted on the earth and sky , Tell them , dear , that if eyes were made ...
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... beauty through The haze of distance , how your sight may err ? Or what delights her presence may confer Upon the privilege of a nearer view ? But keep your judgment ; you may rail as well Against the moon , and hope to dim her rays ...
... beauty through The haze of distance , how your sight may err ? Or what delights her presence may confer Upon the privilege of a nearer view ? But keep your judgment ; you may rail as well Against the moon , and hope to dim her rays ...
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... beauty , shattered by the laws That have creation in their keeping , No longer trembles at applause , Or over children that are sleeping ; And we who delve in beauty's lore Know all that we have known before Of what inexorable cause ...
... beauty , shattered by the laws That have creation in their keeping , No longer trembles at applause , Or over children that are sleeping ; And we who delve in beauty's lore Know all that we have known before Of what inexorable cause ...
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Introduction | 1 |
from Contemplations | 11 |
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS 17671848 | 17 |
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Atlantic beauty bells beneath bird blood bloom blue bones breast breath cloud cold CONRAD AIKEN Copyright dark dead death door dream dust E. E. CUMMINGS earth ELINOR WYLIE EMILY DICKINSON eyes face fall feet floating flower four lean hounds GEORGE DILLON girls gold golden golden girls Goya grass green HART CRANE heart heaven hill hounds crouched low KARL SHAPIRO land leaf lean hounds crouched LÉONIE ADAMS light living look LOUISE BOGAN love riding low and smiling lyric never night pale Poems rain ROBERT FROST ROBINSON JEFFERS rooster rose Sailor sang shadow shine shore silent silver dawn singing skies sleep snow song soul sound spring star stare steeple-jack stones stream summer sweet thee thine thing thou tide trees TRUMBULL STICKNEY VINCENT MILLAY voice walk WALLACE STEVENS watch waves weeping wind wings world goes turning