American Lyric Poems, from Colonial Times to the PresentElder Olson |
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... heaven . Forever float that standard sheet ! Where breathes the foe but falls before us , With Freedom's soil beneath our feet , And Freedom's banner streaming o'er us ! JOSEPH RODMAN DRAKE Leila When first you look upon her face , You ...
... heaven . Forever float that standard sheet ! Where breathes the foe but falls before us , With Freedom's soil beneath our feet , And Freedom's banner streaming o'er us ! JOSEPH RODMAN DRAKE Leila When first you look upon her face , You ...
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... heaven , brought such requital to desire The very hinds discerned it , in a star . Shall our blood fail ? Or shall it come to be The blood of paradise ? And shall the earth Seem all of paradise that we shall know ? The sky will be much ...
... heaven , brought such requital to desire The very hinds discerned it , in a star . Shall our blood fail ? Or shall it come to be The blood of paradise ? And shall the earth Seem all of paradise that we shall know ? The sky will be much ...
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... 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 . The element of water has ...
... 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 . The element of water has ...
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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