Poetry of America: Selections from One Hundred American Poets from 1776 to 1876 |
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... evermore the destiny , - The hope heart - cherish'd is the soonest lost ; The flower first budded soonest feels the frost : Are not the shortest - lived still loveliest ? And , like the pale star shooting down the sky , Look they not ...
... evermore the destiny , - The hope heart - cherish'd is the soonest lost ; The flower first budded soonest feels the frost : Are not the shortest - lived still loveliest ? And , like the pale star shooting down the sky , Look they not ...
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... darkness , a knock at the door , And a word that shall echo for evermore ! For , borne on the night - wind of the past , Through all our history , to the last , In the hour of darkness , and peril , and HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW . 73.
... darkness , a knock at the door , And a word that shall echo for evermore ! For , borne on the night - wind of the past , Through all our history , to the last , In the hour of darkness , and peril , and HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW . 73.
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... evermore . Mother and sister , wife and maid , Look'd from the rocks of Marblehead Over the moaning and rainy sea , - Look'd for the coming that might not be ! What did the winds and the sea - birds say Of the cruel captain who sail'd ...
... evermore . Mother and sister , wife and maid , Look'd from the rocks of Marblehead Over the moaning and rainy sea , - Look'd for the coming that might not be ! What did the winds and the sea - birds say Of the cruel captain who sail'd ...
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... evermore ! hairs gone Revile him not ! —the Tempter hath A snare for all ; And pitying tears , not scorn and wrath , Befit his fall . O ! dumb be passion's stormy rage , When he who might Have lighted up and led his age , Falls back ...
... evermore ! hairs gone Revile him not ! —the Tempter hath A snare for all ; And pitying tears , not scorn and wrath , Befit his fall . O ! dumb be passion's stormy rage , When he who might Have lighted up and led his age , Falls back ...
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... evermore . And the silken , sad , uncertain Rustling of each purple curtain Thrill'd me - fill'd me with fantastic Terrors never felt before ; So that now , to still the beating Of my heart , I stood repeating- " " Tis some visitor ...
... evermore . And the silken , sad , uncertain Rustling of each purple curtain Thrill'd me - fill'd me with fantastic Terrors never felt before ; So that now , to still the beating Of my heart , I stood repeating- " " Tis some visitor ...
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