The American Common-place Book of Poetry: With Occasional Notes |
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... living , glorious , Amazing , infinite ! Tam . Speak not so wildly.- I know them numberless , resplendent , set As symbols of the countless , countless years That make eternity . Had . Eternity ! - Oh ! mighty , glorious , miserable ...
... living , glorious , Amazing , infinite ! Tam . Speak not so wildly.- I know them numberless , resplendent , set As symbols of the countless , countless years That make eternity . Had . Eternity ! - Oh ! mighty , glorious , miserable ...
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... living , stir the dead . The spirit - steed sent up the neigh . It seemed the living trump of hell , Sounding to call the damned away , To join the host that fell . It rang along the vaulted sky : the shore Jarred hard , as when the ...
... living , stir the dead . The spirit - steed sent up the neigh . It seemed the living trump of hell , Sounding to call the damned away , To join the host that fell . It rang along the vaulted sky : the shore Jarred hard , as when the ...
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... living and the dead , They'll make the horrid leap ! The horse stops short : -his feet are on the verge . He stands , like marble , high above the surge . And , nigh , the tall ship yet burns on , With red , hot spars and crackling ...
... living and the dead , They'll make the horrid leap ! The horse stops short : -his feet are on the verge . He stands , like marble , high above the surge . And , nigh , the tall ship yet burns on , With red , hot spars and crackling ...
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... living thing , and dar'st thou come so near These wild and ghastly shapes of death and fear ? Now long that thick , red light has shone On stern , dark rocks , and deep , still bay , On man and horse that seem of stone , So motionless ...
... living thing , and dar'st thou come so near These wild and ghastly shapes of death and fear ? Now long that thick , red light has shone On stern , dark rocks , and deep , still bay , On man and horse that seem of stone , So motionless ...
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... living , conscious beings , then , With whom I talked - but I have talked with men ! With uncheered sorrow , with cold hearts I've met ; Seen honest minds by hardened craft beset ; Seen hope cast down , turn deathly pale its glow ; Seen ...
... living , conscious beings , then , With whom I talked - but I have talked with men ! With uncheered sorrow , with cold hearts I've met ; Seen honest minds by hardened craft beset ; Seen hope cast down , turn deathly pale its glow ; Seen ...
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