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... Door - Yard Bloom'd 580 Selections . 580 SIDNEY LANIER Song of the Chattahoochee A Ballad of Trees and the Master The Marshes of Glynn . THE LATER NATIONAL PERIOD BAYARD TAYLOR Bedouin Song . The Song of the Camp . The National Ode ...
... Door - Yard Bloom'd 580 Selections . 580 SIDNEY LANIER Song of the Chattahoochee A Ballad of Trees and the Master The Marshes of Glynn . THE LATER NATIONAL PERIOD BAYARD TAYLOR Bedouin Song . The Song of the Camp . The National Ode ...
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... door . FOR THE RESTORATION OF MY DEAR HUSBAND FROM A BURNING AGUE , JUNE , 1661 When fears and sorrows me beset , Then didst thou rid me out ; When heart did faint and spirits quail , Thou comforts me about . Thou rais'st him up I ...
... door . FOR THE RESTORATION OF MY DEAR HUSBAND FROM A BURNING AGUE , JUNE , 1661 When fears and sorrows me beset , Then didst thou rid me out ; When heart did faint and spirits quail , Thou comforts me about . Thou rais'st him up I ...
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... doors , turning down many a drop of the bottle , and burning tobacco with all the ease they could , discoursing between one while and another , of the great progress they would make after the Summer's - sun had changed the earths white ...
... doors , turning down many a drop of the bottle , and burning tobacco with all the ease they could , discoursing between one while and another , of the great progress they would make after the Summer's - sun had changed the earths white ...
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... door , With greater force and violence , And strain my voice the more . But vainly do they tell That I am growing stronger , Who hear me speak in half an hour , Till I can speak no longer . Some for because they see not My cheerfulness ...
... door , With greater force and violence , And strain my voice the more . But vainly do they tell That I am growing stronger , Who hear me speak in half an hour , Till I can speak no longer . Some for because they see not My cheerfulness ...
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... door and appeared , the Indians shot so thick that the bullets rattled against the house as if one had taken a handful of stones and threw them , so that we were forced to give back 56 READINGS FROM AMERICAN LITERATURE MARY ROWLANDSON ...
... door and appeared , the Indians shot so thick that the bullets rattled against the house as if one had taken a handful of stones and threw them , so that we were forced to give back 56 READINGS FROM AMERICAN LITERATURE MARY ROWLANDSON ...
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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...