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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... wind is up : hark ! how it howls ! Me- thinks Till now I never heard a sound so dreary : Doors creak , and windows ... winds . Some rift half down Their branchless trunks ; others so thin a - top , That scarce two crows could lodge in ...
... wind is up : hark ! how it howls ! Me- thinks Till now I never heard a sound so dreary : Doors creak , and windows ... winds . Some rift half down Their branchless trunks ; others so thin a - top , That scarce two crows could lodge in ...
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... wind up your strings To notes untried , and boundless things . You , whose capacious powers survey Largely beyond our eyes of clay , Yet what a narrow portion too Is seen or thought or known by you ! How flat your highest praises fall ...
... wind up your strings To notes untried , and boundless things . You , whose capacious powers survey Largely beyond our eyes of clay , Yet what a narrow portion too Is seen or thought or known by you ! How flat your highest praises fall ...
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... wind , and crushing rain , Beat keen and heavy on thy tender years ? O let me now , into a richer soil , Transplant ... winds had spared In one wild moment ruin'd ; the big hopes And well - earn'd treasures of the painful year . Fled to ...
... wind , and crushing rain , Beat keen and heavy on thy tender years ? O let me now , into a richer soil , Transplant ... winds had spared In one wild moment ruin'd ; the big hopes And well - earn'd treasures of the painful year . Fled to ...
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... winds have swept away . James Thomson . - Born 1700 , Died 1748 . 872. - AUTUMN EVENING SCENE . But see the fading ... wind , Cluster the rolling fogs , and swim along The dusky - mantled lawn . Meanwhile the moon , Full - orb'd , and ...
... winds have swept away . James Thomson . - Born 1700 , Died 1748 . 872. - AUTUMN EVENING SCENE . But see the fading ... wind , Cluster the rolling fogs , and swim along The dusky - mantled lawn . Meanwhile the moon , Full - orb'd , and ...
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... wind On mutual dependence find . ' Tis now the raven's bleak abode ; ' Tis now the apartment of the toad ; And there ... windy summit , wild and high , Roughly rushing on the sky ! The pleasant seat , the ruin'd tower , The naked rock ...
... wind On mutual dependence find . ' Tis now the raven's bleak abode ; ' Tis now the apartment of the toad ; And there ... windy summit , wild and high , Roughly rushing on the sky ! The pleasant seat , the ruin'd tower , The naked rock ...
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