PoemsB.B.Mussey & Company, 1854 - 384 pages |
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... lips the blessing of the sky . The rigor of a frozen clime , The harshness of an untaught ear , The jarring words of one whose rhyme Beat often Labor's hurried time , Or Duty's rugged march through storm and strife , are here . Of ...
... lips the blessing of the sky . The rigor of a frozen clime , The harshness of an untaught ear , The jarring words of one whose rhyme Beat often Labor's hurried time , Or Duty's rugged march through storm and strife , are here . Of ...
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... lips Of the bright waters . We had checked our steeds , Silent with wonder , where the mountain wall Is piled to heaven ; and , through the narrow rift Of the vast rocks , against whose rugged feet Beats the mad torrent with perpetual ...
... lips Of the bright waters . We had checked our steeds , Silent with wonder , where the mountain wall Is piled to heaven ; and , through the narrow rift Of the vast rocks , against whose rugged feet Beats the mad torrent with perpetual ...
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... lips of the mosses seek : Why , with wise instinct , Nature seems To harmonize her wide extremes , Linking the stronger with the weak The haughty with the soft and meek ! V. THE NEW HOME . A wild and broken landscape , spiked with firs ...
... lips of the mosses seek : Why , with wise instinct , Nature seems To harmonize her wide extremes , Linking the stronger with the weak The haughty with the soft and meek ! V. THE NEW HOME . A wild and broken landscape , spiked with firs ...
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... . AT PENNACOOK . The hills are dearest which our childish feet Have climbed the earliest ; and the streams most sweet , * The Spring God . - See Roger Williams's Key , & c . Are ever those at which our young lips drank , 26 POEMS .
... . AT PENNACOOK . The hills are dearest which our childish feet Have climbed the earliest ; and the streams most sweet , * The Spring God . - See Roger Williams's Key , & c . Are ever those at which our young lips drank , 26 POEMS .
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John Greenleaf Whittier. Are ever those at which our young lips drank , Stooped to their waters o'er the grassy bank : Midst the cold dreary sea - watch , Home's hearth - light Shines round the helmsman plunging through the night ; And ...
John Greenleaf Whittier. Are ever those at which our young lips drank , Stooped to their waters o'er the grassy bank : Midst the cold dreary sea - watch , Home's hearth - light Shines round the helmsman plunging through the night ; And ...
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