American Lyric Poems, from Colonial Times to the PresentElder Olson |
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... breath . Thou who beholdest , if thy thought , Not narrowed down to personal cheer , Take in the import of the quiet here- The after - quiet - the calm full fraught ; Thou too wilt silent stand , - Silent as I , and lonesome as the land ...
... breath . Thou who beholdest , if thy thought , Not narrowed down to personal cheer , Take in the import of the quiet here- The after - quiet - the calm full fraught ; Thou too wilt silent stand , - Silent as I , and lonesome as the land ...
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... breath , As breath relinquish heaven's atmosphere , Yet in it have no share , Nor can survive therein Where its outer edge is filtered pure and thin : It doth but lend its crystal to his lungs For his early crying , and his final songs ...
... breath , As breath relinquish heaven's atmosphere , Yet in it have no share , Nor can survive therein Where its outer edge is filtered pure and thin : It doth but lend its crystal to his lungs For his early crying , and his final songs ...
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... breath In a stalk of fennel ! You shall scratch and you shall whine Many a night , and you shall worry Many a bone , before you bury One sweet bone of mine ! When shall be dead ? When my flesh is withered , And above my head Yellow ...
... breath In a stalk of fennel ! You shall scratch and you shall whine Many a night , and you shall worry Many a bone , before you bury One sweet bone of mine ! When shall be dead ? When my flesh is withered , And above my head Yellow ...
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Atlantic beauty bells beneath bird blood bloom blue bones breath bright cloud cold CONRAD AIKEN Copyright dark dead death deer 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 storm stream summer sweet thee thine thing thou tide trees TRUMBULL STICKNEY VINCENT MILLAY voice walk WALLACE STEVENS watch waves weeping wind wings