The Poets and Poetry of America: With an Historical IntroductionOne of the most important American poetry anthologies of the nineteenth century, including the works of nearly every major and minor poet of the day, selected by Edgar Allan Poe's future literary executor, and rarely encountered in the correct first printing. Poets included are Longfellow, Lowell, Whittier, Holmes, Bryant, Emerson, Jones Very, William Gilmore Simms, Christopher P. Cranch, Richard Henry Dana, and an impressive selection of female poets now mostly forgotten: Sigourney, Gould, Brooks, Mrs. Seba Smith, Hall, Embury, Ellett, Dinnies, Welby, Hooper, Davidson. |
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... lone , hollow aisles sad Echo calls At each slow step ; deep sighs the breathing gloom , And weeping fields around bewail their empress ' doom . Where o'er a hundred realms the throne uprose , The screech - owl nests , the panther ...
... lone , hollow aisles sad Echo calls At each slow step ; deep sighs the breathing gloom , And weeping fields around bewail their empress ' doom . Where o'er a hundred realms the throne uprose , The screech - owl nests , the panther ...
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... lone hill the Pequods wound their way ; And none but Heaven the mansion had descried , Close - tangled , wild , impervious to the day ; But one poor wanderer , loitering long astray , Wilder'd in labyrinths of pathless wood , In a tall ...
... lone hill the Pequods wound their way ; And none but Heaven the mansion had descried , Close - tangled , wild , impervious to the day ; But one poor wanderer , loitering long astray , Wilder'd in labyrinths of pathless wood , In a tall ...
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... lone valley , with cedars o'erspread , From war's dread confusion I pensively stray'd- The gloom from the face of fair heaven retired , The winds ceased to murmur , the thunders expired ; Perfumes , as of Eden , flow'd sweetly along ...
... lone valley , with cedars o'erspread , From war's dread confusion I pensively stray'd- The gloom from the face of fair heaven retired , The winds ceased to murmur , the thunders expired ; Perfumes , as of Eden , flow'd sweetly along ...
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... lone breast with equal flame inspire , But , lost in books , irregular and wild , The poet wonder'd , and the critic smiled : The friendly smile , a bulkier work repays ; For fools will print , while greater fools will praise . Touch'd ...
... lone breast with equal flame inspire , But , lost in books , irregular and wild , The poet wonder'd , and the critic smiled : The friendly smile , a bulkier work repays ; For fools will print , while greater fools will praise . Touch'd ...
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... lone land that met the stranger there ! No smiling villages or curling smoke The busy haunts of busy men bespoke ; No solitary hut , the banks along , Sent forth blithe labour's homely , rustic song ; No urchin gamboll'd on the smooth ...
... lone land that met the stranger there ! No smiling villages or curling smoke The busy haunts of busy men bespoke ; No solitary hut , the banks along , Sent forth blithe labour's homely , rustic song ; No urchin gamboll'd on the smooth ...
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