The World's Best Poetry ...John Vance Cheney, Sir Charles G. D. Roberts, Charles Francis Richardson, Francis Hovey Stoddard, John Raymond Howard J. D. Morris, 1904 - English poetry |
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... Song , " " Kearny at Seven Pines ; " H. Timrod . " A Cry to Arms , " " Ode ; " J. G. Whittier : ' Barbara Frietchie ... Songs . " Mr. JOHN LANE , New York.-W. Watson : " England and Her Colonies , " " The Turk in Armenia . " 66 vii VOL ...
... Song , " " Kearny at Seven Pines ; " H. Timrod . " A Cry to Arms , " " Ode ; " J. G. Whittier : ' Barbara Frietchie ... Songs . " Mr. JOHN LANE , New York.-W. Watson : " England and Her Colonies , " " The Turk in Armenia . " 66 vii VOL ...
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... songs which accompany the simplest emotions . When rowers were in a boat the swinging oars became rhythmic , and the oarsman's chant naturally followed . When the savage overcame his enemy , he danced his war dance , and sang his war song ...
... songs which accompany the simplest emotions . When rowers were in a boat the swinging oars became rhythmic , and the oarsman's chant naturally followed . When the savage overcame his enemy , he danced his war dance , and sang his war song ...
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... Song of the Chattahoochee , " which do little more than sing to our ears the harmonies of sound , the ultimate rhythms of nature . Yet it is not merely the brook or the bell or the river , that we hear in the poem , but the echoing of ...
... Song of the Chattahoochee , " which do little more than sing to our ears the harmonies of sound , the ultimate rhythms of nature . Yet it is not merely the brook or the bell or the river , that we hear in the poem , but the echoing of ...
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... things in terms of the spirit . The poetry of the Senses lifts a mortal to the skies , thinking the thought of one higher than itself as the poet muses , singing the songs of an angelic choir in THE STUDY OF POETRY . xvii.
... things in terms of the spirit . The poetry of the Senses lifts a mortal to the skies , thinking the thought of one higher than itself as the poet muses , singing the songs of an angelic choir in THE STUDY OF POETRY . xvii.
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... songs of an angelic choir in harmony with the rhythm of the verse . The poetry of the Spirit brings the message of the an- gels down to men and makes the harmonies they speak the music of this earthly life . The highest type of poetry ...
... songs of an angelic choir in harmony with the rhythm of the verse . The poetry of the Spirit brings the message of the an- gels down to men and makes the harmonies they speak the music of this earthly life . The highest type of poetry ...
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