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... Earth , " composed two years later in 1834 , approached the problem of national sentiment in an entirely different manner . The sensibility of the poet encountered not a vast stage for heroic enterprise in Nature but a formless and ...
... Earth , " composed two years later in 1834 , approached the problem of national sentiment in an entirely different manner . The sensibility of the poet encountered not a vast stage for heroic enterprise in Nature but a formless and ...
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... Earth is distinctive among the various forces in Nature . Unlike the hostile elements , Earth sustains man like a mother and provides him " with a couch of rest at his death . " In spite of the buffets of life , natural man is not ...
... Earth is distinctive among the various forces in Nature . Unlike the hostile elements , Earth sustains man like a mother and provides him " with a couch of rest at his death . " In spite of the buffets of life , natural man is not ...
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... Earth , that nourished thee , shall claim Thy growth , to be resolved to earth again , And , lost each human trace , surrendering up Thine individual being , shalt thou go To mix for ever with the elements , To be a brother to the ...
... Earth , that nourished thee , shall claim Thy growth , to be resolved to earth again , And , lost each human trace , surrendering up Thine individual being , shalt thou go To mix for ever with the elements , To be a brother to the ...
Contents
Chronology | 13 |
The Poems of Nature | 39 |
The Poem of Death | 65 |
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