American Lyric Poems, from Colonial Times to the PresentElder Olson |
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... thought to ask , I never knew ; But , in my simple ignorance , suppose The self - same Power that brought me there brought you . RALPH WALDO EMERSON Two Rivers Thy summer voice , Musketaquit , Repeats the music of the rain ; But sweeter ...
... thought to ask , I never knew ; But , in my simple ignorance , suppose The self - same Power that brought me there brought you . RALPH WALDO EMERSON Two Rivers Thy summer voice , Musketaquit , Repeats the music of the rain ; But sweeter ...
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... Thought is deeper than all speech , Feeling deeper than all thought ; Souls to souls can never teach What unto themselves was taught . CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH The Pines and the Sea Beyond the low marsh - meadows and the beach , Seen ...
... Thought is deeper than all speech , Feeling deeper than all thought ; Souls to souls can never teach What unto themselves was taught . CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH The Pines and the Sea Beyond the low marsh - meadows and the beach , Seen ...
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... thought to thought ! thou needs must hear An old refrain , too much , too long thine own : ' Tis thy mortality infects thine ear ; The mournful strain was in thyself alone . CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH The Spirit - Land Father ! thy ...
... thought to thought ! thou needs must hear An old refrain , too much , too long thine own : ' Tis thy mortality infects thine ear ; The mournful strain was in thyself alone . CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH The Spirit - Land Father ! thy ...
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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