The Poets of Connecticut: With Biographical Sketches ...Charles William Everest |
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... verse . Inventive genius , imitative powers , And , still more precious , common sense is ours ; While knowledge useful , more than science grand , In rivulets still o'erspreads the smiling land ! " EDITED BY HUMPHREYS . REV . CHARLES W ...
... verse . Inventive genius , imitative powers , And , still more precious , common sense is ours ; While knowledge useful , more than science grand , In rivulets still o'erspreads the smiling land ! " EDITED BY HUMPHREYS . REV . CHARLES W ...
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... verse comprised in our selections is of a high order of poetry . But we do assert that we believe much of it to be , and furthermore , that there is nothing in the volume wholly unworthy of that name . Commencing with the Hon . ROGER ...
... verse comprised in our selections is of a high order of poetry . But we do assert that we believe much of it to be , and furthermore , that there is nothing in the volume wholly unworthy of that name . Commencing with the Hon . ROGER ...
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... verse , refraining from especial eulogy or censure . Our office seemed not unlike that of one who exhibits a gallery of pictures . He may point out some beauties of the various paintings of his collection , and this is expected of him ...
... verse , refraining from especial eulogy or censure . Our office seemed not unlike that of one who exhibits a gallery of pictures . He may point out some beauties of the various paintings of his collection , and this is expected of him ...
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... verses are quaint relics of a by - gone age , their author must not be passed by in silence . He is the Chaucer of our 66 goodly companie " -and must lead the van of " the Poets of Connecticut . " ROGER WOLCOTT , son of SIMON WOLCOTT ...
... verses are quaint relics of a by - gone age , their author must not be passed by in silence . He is the Chaucer of our 66 goodly companie " -and must lead the van of " the Poets of Connecticut . " ROGER WOLCOTT , son of SIMON WOLCOTT ...
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... verse , but is argumentative , and didactic to so great a degree as to illustrate very little the poeti- cal powers he exhibited in minor productions . His family are justly proud of it , nevertheless , for the ripe and enlightened ...
... verse , but is argumentative , and didactic to so great a degree as to illustrate very little the poeti- cal powers he exhibited in minor productions . His family are justly proud of it , nevertheless , for the ripe and enlightened ...
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Page 251 - There with its waving blade of green, The sea-flag streams through the silent water, And the crimson leaf of the dulse is seen To blush like a banner bathed in slaughter ; There with a light and easy motion, The fan-coral sweeps through the clear deep sea ; And the yellow and scarlet tufts of ocean Are bending like corn on the upland lea...
Page 252 - ... of ocean Are bending like corn on the upland lea: And life, in rare and beautiful forms, Is sporting amid those bowers of stone, And is safe when the wrathful spirit of storms Has made the top of the wave his own; And when the ship from his fury flies, Where the myriad voices of ocean roar, When the wind-god frowns in the murky skies, And demons are waiting the wreck on shore; Then far below in the peaceful sea, The purple mullet and gold-fish rove, Where the waters murmur tranquilly, Through...
Page 270 - The thoughts are strange that crowd into my brain, While I look upward to thee. It would seem As if GOD poured thee from his " hollow hand," And hung his bow upon thine awful front; And spoke in that loud voice, which seemed to him Who dwelt in Patmos for his Saviour's sake, " The sound of many waters ;" and had bade Thy flood to chronicle the ages back, And notch His centuries in the eternal rocks.
Page 144 - Was it the chime of a tiny bell That came so sweet to my dreaming ear, Like the silvery tones of a fairy's shell That he winds, on the beach, so mellow and clear, When the winds and the waves lie together asleep, And the Moon and the Fairy are watching the deep, She dispensing her silvery light.
Page 225 - Strong sense, deep feeling, passions strong, A hate of tyrant and of knave, A love of right, a scorn of wrong, Of coward and of slave ; A kind, true heart, a spirit high, That could not fear and would not bow, Were written in his manly eye And on his manly brow.
Page 315 - He was admitted to the bar, and commenced the practice of his profession in his native town ; but before the end of two years he was elected a Representative in the State Legislature, and during his second year's service was chosen Speaker of the House.
Page 147 - He lives ! — in all the past He lives ; nor, to the last, Of seeing him again will I despair ; In dreams I see him now, And on his angel brow I see it written,
Page 232 - At midnight, in the forest shades, Bozzaris ranged his Suliote band, True as the steel of their tried blades, Heroes in heart and hand. There had the Persian's thousands stood, There had the glad earth drunk their blood On old...
Page 148 - The pilgrim exile — sainted name ! The hill, whose icy brow Rejoiced, when he came, in the morning's flame, In the morning's flame burns now. And the moon's cold light, as it lay that night On the hill-side and the sea, Still lies where he laid his houseless head ; But the...
Page 150 - O Thou, to whom, in ancient time, The lyre of prophet bards was strung, To Thee at last, in every clime, Shall temples rise, and praise be sung.