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Elder Olson. Thy spirit nevermore . Come , quit with me the shore , For gladness and the light , Where birds of summer sing . RICHARD HENRY DANA On the Death of Joseph Rodman Drake Green be the turf above thee , Friend of my better days ...
Elder Olson. Thy spirit nevermore . Come , quit with me the shore , For gladness and the light , Where birds of summer sing . RICHARD HENRY DANA On the Death of Joseph Rodman Drake Green be the turf above thee , Friend of my better days ...
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... shore until Is answered in the vortex of our grave The seal's wide spindrift gaze toward paradise . HART CRANE At Melville's Tomb Often beneath the wave , wide from this ledge The dice of drowned men's bones he saw bequeath An embassy ...
... shore until Is answered in the vortex of our grave The seal's wide spindrift gaze toward paradise . HART CRANE At Melville's Tomb Often beneath the wave , wide from this ledge The dice of drowned men's bones he saw bequeath An embassy ...
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... shore Where cold weeds swim . In circle and soar At the water's rim Disconsolate gulls Ride the air . Moons convulse A pond's sleek stare To wave and ripple Minutely bright . Stars stipple The roof of night . Under that roof Where ...
... shore Where cold weeds swim . In circle and soar At the water's rim Disconsolate gulls Ride the air . Moons convulse A pond's sleek stare To wave and ripple Minutely bright . Stars stipple The roof of night . Under that roof Where ...
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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