American Lyric Poems, from Colonial Times to the PresentElder Olson |
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... darkness gay With looks , whose brightness well might make Of darker nights a day . EDWARD COOTE PINKNEY Song We break the glass , whose sacred wine , To some beloved health we drain , Lest future pledges , less divine , Should e'er the ...
... darkness gay With looks , whose brightness well might make Of darker nights a day . EDWARD COOTE PINKNEY Song We break the glass , whose sacred wine , To some beloved health we drain , Lest future pledges , less divine , Should e'er the ...
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... Darkness settles on roofs and walls , But the sea , the sea in the darkness calls ; The little waves , with their soft ... dark Of painted glass in leaden lattice bound ; He listeneth and he laugheth at the sound , Then writeth in a book ...
... Darkness settles on roofs and walls , But the sea , the sea in the darkness calls ; The little waves , with their soft ... dark Of painted glass in leaden lattice bound ; He listeneth and he laugheth at the sound , Then writeth in a book ...
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... dark about their knees The mountains over Persia change And now at Kermanshah the gate Dark empty and the withered grass And through the twilight now the late Few travelers in the westward pass And Baghdad darken and the bridge Across ...
... dark about their knees The mountains over Persia change And now at Kermanshah the gate Dark empty and the withered grass And through the twilight now the late Few travelers in the westward pass And Baghdad darken and the bridge Across ...
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ANNE BRADSTREET 16121672 | 5 |
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JOHN QUINCY ADAMS 17671848 | 17 |
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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