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... deep poetry ? What poet has experienced its influence , whose song does not breathe an echo of the melodies of paradise ? In the true minstrelsy of devotion , there is a higher excellence than that of mere genius . Poetry herself ...
... deep poetry ? What poet has experienced its influence , whose song does not breathe an echo of the melodies of paradise ? In the true minstrelsy of devotion , there is a higher excellence than that of mere genius . Poetry herself ...
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... Deep . Scene after a Summer Shower . The Child's Wish in June . From " The Minstrel Girl . ” Description of a sultry Summer's Noon . The Dying Child . Looking unto Jesus . Scene from Hadad . Page . . Carlos Wilcox . 61 • Brainard . 63 ...
... Deep . Scene after a Summer Shower . The Child's Wish in June . From " The Minstrel Girl . ” Description of a sultry Summer's Noon . The Dying Child . Looking unto Jesus . Scene from Hadad . Page . . Carlos Wilcox . 61 • Brainard . 63 ...
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... deep contentment : as they bend To the soft winds , the sun from the blue sky Looks in , and sheds a blessing on the scene . Scarce less the cleft - born wild - flower seems to enjoy Existence , than the winged plunderer That sucks its ...
... deep contentment : as they bend To the soft winds , the sun from the blue sky Looks in , and sheds a blessing on the scene . Scarce less the cleft - born wild - flower seems to enjoy Existence , than the winged plunderer That sucks its ...
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... it be necessary to say , that they breathe the deep feel- ing of a mind essentially poetical . " The piece here referred to , is that extracted above . ED . Hagar in the Wilderness . - N . P. WILLIS 26 COMMON - PLACE BOOK OF POETRY .
... it be necessary to say , that they breathe the deep feel- ing of a mind essentially poetical . " The piece here referred to , is that extracted above . ED . Hagar in the Wilderness . - N . P. WILLIS 26 COMMON - PLACE BOOK OF POETRY .
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... deep . ' Oh no ! and when I watched by thee the while , And saw thy bright lip curling in thy dream , And thought of the dark stream In my own land of Egypt , the deep Nile , How prayed I that my father's land might be An heritage for ...
... deep . ' Oh no ! and when I watched by thee the while , And saw thy bright lip curling in thy dream , And thought of the dark stream In my own land of Egypt , the deep Nile , How prayed I that my father's land might be An heritage for ...
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