American Lyric Poems, from Colonial Times to the PresentElder Olson |
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... Snow - Flakes Melting on His Lady's Breast To kiss my Celia's fairer breast , The snow forsakes its native skies , By proving an unwelcome guest , It grieves , dissolves in tears , and dies . Its touch , like mine , but serves to wake ...
... Snow - Flakes Melting on His Lady's Breast To kiss my Celia's fairer breast , The snow forsakes its native skies , By proving an unwelcome guest , It grieves , dissolves in tears , and dies . Its touch , like mine , but serves to wake ...
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... Snow - Flakes Out of the bosom of the Air , Out of the cloud - folds of her garments shaken , Over the woodlands brown and bare , Over the harvest - fields forsaken , Silent and soft and slow Descends the snow . Even as our cloudy ...
... Snow - Flakes Out of the bosom of the Air , Out of the cloud - folds of her garments shaken , Over the woodlands brown and bare , Over the harvest - fields forsaken , Silent and soft and slow Descends the snow . Even as our cloudy ...
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... snow . Had they been swallows only , Without the passion stronger That skyward longs and sings , — Woe's me , I shall be lonely When I can feel no longer The impatience of their wings ! A moment , sweet delusion , Like birds the brown ...
... snow . Had they been swallows only , Without the passion stronger That skyward longs and sings , — Woe's me , I shall be lonely When I can feel no longer The impatience of their wings ! A moment , sweet delusion , Like birds the brown ...
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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