OceanicaHoughton, Mifflin, 1879 - English poetry |
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... mighty with the weak , Have dimmed the flush upon his faded cheek , And many a dew and many a noxious damp , The daily labor , and the nightly lamp , Have reft away , forever reft , from him The liquid accent and the buoyant limb . Yet ...
... mighty with the weak , Have dimmed the flush upon his faded cheek , And many a dew and many a noxious damp , The daily labor , and the nightly lamp , Have reft away , forever reft , from him The liquid accent and the buoyant limb . Yet ...
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... mighty bays unnumbered navies ride , Or come and go upon the distant tide , In land - locked harbors rest their giant forms , Or boldly launch upon the " Bay of Storms " ; While the swarth native crowns the glorious plan In all the ...
... mighty bays unnumbered navies ride , Or come and go upon the distant tide , In land - locked harbors rest their giant forms , Or boldly launch upon the " Bay of Storms " ; While the swarth native crowns the glorious plan In all the ...
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... mighty Organ hill , That seemed a dim blue cloudlet at the start , Hangs in aerial , fluted cliffs aloft , And still as through the long , low glacis borne , Beneath the gorge borne ever at wild speed , I saw the mateless mountain eagle ...
... mighty Organ hill , That seemed a dim blue cloudlet at the start , Hangs in aerial , fluted cliffs aloft , And still as through the long , low glacis borne , Beneath the gorge borne ever at wild speed , I saw the mateless mountain eagle ...
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... mighty blast Which ran with an exceeding bitter cry Across the tumbled fragments of the hills , And through the sluices of the gorge and glen . So , therefore , all about the shepherd's hut That space was mute , save when the fastened ...
... mighty blast Which ran with an exceeding bitter cry Across the tumbled fragments of the hills , And through the sluices of the gorge and glen . So , therefore , all about the shepherd's hut That space was mute , save when the fastened ...
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... mighty sorrow in . Then came a patch or two of starry sky ; And through a reef of cloven thunder - cloud The soft moon looked a patient face beyond The fierce impatient shadows of the slopes , And the harsh voices of the broken hills ...
... mighty sorrow in . Then came a patch or two of starry sky ; And through a reef of cloven thunder - cloud The soft moon looked a patient face beyond The fierce impatient shadows of the slopes , And the harsh voices of the broken hills ...
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