American Lyric Poems, from Colonial Times to the PresentElder Olson |
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... sang a song , As they rocked in the wooden shoe ; And the wind that sped them all night long Ruffled the waves of dew . The little stars were the herring fish That lived in that beautiful sea- " Now cast your nets wherever you wish ...
... sang a song , As they rocked in the wooden shoe ; And the wind that sped them all night long Ruffled the waves of dew . The little stars were the herring fish That lived in that beautiful sea- " Now cast your nets wherever you wish ...
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... sang was what she heard , Since what she sang was uttered word by word . It may be that in all her phrases stirred The grinding water and the gasping wind ; But it was she and not the sea we heard . For she was the maker of the song she ...
... sang was what she heard , Since what she sang was uttered word by word . It may be that in all her phrases stirred The grinding water and the gasping wind ; But it was she and not the sea we heard . For she was the maker of the song she ...
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... sang before . Horn at hip went my love riding riding the echo down into the silver dawn . four lean hounds crouched low and smiling the level meadows ran before . Softer be they than slippered sleep the lean lithe deer the fleet flown ...
... sang before . Horn at hip went my love riding riding the echo down into the silver dawn . four lean hounds crouched low and smiling the level meadows ran before . Softer be they than slippered sleep the lean lithe deer the fleet flown ...
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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