Encyclopaedia of English and American Poetry: From Caedmon and King Alfred's Boethius to Browning and Tennyson, Volume 2Ward, 1873 - American poetry |
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... breath he overtakes his fellows : Who gather round , and wonder at the tale Of horrid apparition , tall and ghastly , That walks at dead of night , or takes his stand O'er some new - open'd grave ; and ( strange to tell ! ) Evanishes at ...
... breath he overtakes his fellows : Who gather round , and wonder at the tale Of horrid apparition , tall and ghastly , That walks at dead of night , or takes his stand O'er some new - open'd grave ; and ( strange to tell ! ) Evanishes at ...
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... breath Is heard to quiver through the closing woods , Or rustling turn the many twinkling leaves Of aspen tall . The uncurling floods diffused In glassy breadth , seem , through delusive lapse , Forgetful of their course . ' Tis silence ...
... breath Is heard to quiver through the closing woods , Or rustling turn the many twinkling leaves Of aspen tall . The uncurling floods diffused In glassy breadth , seem , through delusive lapse , Forgetful of their course . ' Tis silence ...
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... breath perfumes you , and whose pencil paints . Ye forests bend , ye harvests wave , to him ; Breathe your still song into the reaper's heart , As home he goes beneath the joyous Moon . Ye that keep watch in Heaven , as Earth asleep ...
... breath perfumes you , and whose pencil paints . Ye forests bend , ye harvests wave , to him ; Breathe your still song into the reaper's heart , As home he goes beneath the joyous Moon . Ye that keep watch in Heaven , as Earth asleep ...
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... breath of morn , Just as the dew - bent rose is born ; And while meridian fervours beat , Thine is the woodland dumb retreat ; But chief , when evening scenes decay , And the faint landscape swims away , Thine is the doubtful soft ...
... breath of morn , Just as the dew - bent rose is born ; And while meridian fervours beat , Thine is the woodland dumb retreat ; But chief , when evening scenes decay , And the faint landscape swims away , Thine is the doubtful soft ...
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... breath of life in English air ; Was early taught a Briton's right to prize , And lisp the tale of Henry's victories ; If the gull'd conqueror receives the chain , And flattery subdues when arms are vain ? " Studious to please , and ...
... breath of life in English air ; Was early taught a Briton's right to prize , And lisp the tale of Henry's victories ; If the gull'd conqueror receives the chain , And flattery subdues when arms are vain ? " Studious to please , and ...
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