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... brought him to Werowocomoco , where was Pow- hatan their Emperor . Here more than two hundred of those grim courtiers stood wondering at him , as he had been a monster ; till Powhatan and his train had put themselves in their greatest ...
... brought him to Werowocomoco , where was Pow- hatan their Emperor . Here more than two hundred of those grim courtiers stood wondering at him , as he had been a monster ; till Powhatan and his train had put themselves in their greatest ...
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... brought him a bunch of feathers , instead of a towel to dry them . Having feasted him after their best barbarous manner they could , a long consultation was held , but the conclusion was , two great stones were brought before Powhatan ...
... brought him a bunch of feathers , instead of a towel to dry them . Having feasted him after their best barbarous manner they could , a long consultation was held , but the conclusion was , two great stones were brought before Powhatan ...
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... brought his daughter , and to receive the ransom for her that was promised , or to have it perforce . They nothing dismayed thereat , told us , We were welcome if we came to fight , for they were provided for us , but advised us , if we ...
... brought his daughter , and to receive the ransom for her that was promised , or to have it perforce . They nothing dismayed thereat , told us , We were welcome if we came to fight , for they were provided for us , but advised us , if we ...
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... brought us the next day , which was only but to delay time : for the next day they came not . Then we went higher , to a house of Powhatan's , called Machot , where we saw about four hundred men well appointed here they dared us to come ...
... brought us the next day , which was only but to delay time : for the next day they came not . Then we went higher , to a house of Powhatan's , called Machot , where we saw about four hundred men well appointed here they dared us to come ...
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... brought upon them ; so as there died sometimes two or three of a day , in the foresaid time ; that of one hundred and odd persons scarce fifty remained : and of these in the time of most distress there was but six or seven sound persons ...
... brought upon them ; so as there died sometimes two or three of a day , in the foresaid time ; that of one hundred and odd persons scarce fifty remained : and of these in the time of most distress there was but six or seven sound persons ...
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Page 565 - For you bouquets and ribbon'd wreaths— for you the shores a-crowding, For you they call, the swaying mass, their eager faces turning; Here Captain! dear father! This arm beneath your head! It is some dream that on the deck, You've fallen cold and dead.
Page 119 - Gentlemen may cry peace, peace, but there is no peace. The war is actually begun. The next gale that sweeps from the north will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms. Our brethren are already in the field. Why stand we here idle ? What is it that gentlemen wish ? What would they have ? Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery ? Forbid it, Almighty God ! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death...
Page 236 - rt gone, the abyss of heaven Hath swallowed up thy form ; yet, on my heart Deeply hath sunk the lesson thou hast given, And shall not soon depart. He who, from zone to zone, Guides through the boundless sky thy certain flight, In the long way that I must tread alone, Will lead my steps aright.
Page 448 - ANNOUNCED by all the trumpets of the sky, Arrives the snow, and, driving o'er the fields, Seems nowhere to alight: the whited air Hides hills and woods, the river, and the heaven, And veils the farm-house 'at the garden's end. The sled and traveller stopped, the courier's feet Delayed, all friends shut out, the housemates sit Around the radiant fireplace, enclosed In a tumultuous privacy of storm.
Page 470 - AY, tear her tattered ensign down ! Long has it waved on high, And many an eye has danced to see That banner in the sky; Beneath it rung the battle shout, And burst the cannon's roar; — The meteor of the ocean air Shall sweep the clouds no more. Her deck once red with heroes...
Page 237 - The wind-flower and the violet, they perished long ago, And the brier-rose and the orchis died amid the summer glow ; But on the hills the golden-rod, and the aster in the wood, And the yellow sun-flower by the brook in autumn beauty stood, Till fell the frost from the clear cold heaven, as falls the plague on men, And the brightness of their smile was gone, from upland, glade, and glen.
Page 250 - what it utters is its only stock and store, Caught from some unhappy master whom unmerciful Disaster Followed fast and followed faster till his songs one burden bore: Till the dirges of his Hope that melancholy burden bore Of 'Never — nevermore.'" But the Raven still beguiling all my sad soul into smiling, Straight I wheeled a cushioned seat in front of bird and bust and door; Then, upon the velvet sinking, I betook myself to linking Fancy unto fancy, thinking what this ominous bird of yore, What...
Page 478 - Before thee lies revealed, — Its irised ceiling rent, its sunless crypt unsealed! Year after year beheld the silent toil That spread his lustrous coil; Still, as the spiral grew, He left the past year's dwelling for the new, Stole with soft step its shining archway through, Built up its idle door, Stretched in his last-found home, and knew the old no more. Thanks for the heavenly message brought by thee, Child of the wandering sea, Cast from her lap, forlorn! From thy dead lips a clearer note is...
Page 122 - Still one thing more, fellow-citizens, a wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned.
Page 258 - TO HELEN. Helen, thy beauty is to me Like those Nicean barks of yore, That gently, o'er a perfumed sea, The weary, way-worn wanderer bore To his own native shore. On desperate seas long wont to roam, Thy hyacinth hair, thy classic face, Thy Naiad airs have brought me home To the glory that was Greece And the grandeur that was Rome. Lo ! in yon brilliant window-niche How statue-like I see thee stand ! The agate lamp within thy hand, Ah ! Psyche, from the regions which Are Holy Land ! It is the tendency...