American Lyric Poems, from Colonial Times to the PresentElder Olson |
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... hear the spending of the stream Through years , through men , through Nature fleet , Through love and thought , through power and dream . Musketaquit , a goblin strong , Of shard and flint makes jewels gay ; They lose their grief who hear ...
... hear the spending of the stream Through years , through men , through Nature fleet , Through love and thought , through power and dream . Musketaquit , a goblin strong , Of shard and flint makes jewels gay ; They lose their grief who hear ...
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... hear the crowing cock , I hear the note Of lark and linnet , and from every page Rise odors of plowed field or flowery mead . HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Milton I pace the sounding sea - beach and behold How the voluminous billows roll ...
... hear the crowing cock , I hear the note Of lark and linnet , and from every page Rise odors of plowed field or flowery mead . HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Milton I pace the sounding sea - beach and behold How the voluminous billows roll ...
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... hear us talk as strangers , met Above the room wherein you lie abed ; A word perhaps loud spoken you may get , Or hear our feet when heavily they tread ; But he who speaks , or him who's spoken to , Must both remain as strangers still ...
... hear us talk as strangers , met Above the room wherein you lie abed ; A word perhaps loud spoken you may get , Or hear our feet when heavily they tread ; But he who speaks , or him who's spoken to , Must both remain as strangers still ...
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ANNE BRADSTREET 16121672 | 5 |
from Contemplations | 11 |
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