Poetry of America: Selections from One Hundred American Poets from 1776 to 1876 |
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... this majority : nevertheless I have done my best to make my book truly representative of American feeling as uttered in verse , a fair and full presentment of the quality of American Song , both emotional and artistic X PREFACE .
... this majority : nevertheless I have done my best to make my book truly representative of American feeling as uttered in verse , a fair and full presentment of the quality of American Song , both emotional and artistic X PREFACE .
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... feeling , or correctness of dic- tion . " Some specimens however , culled from Kettell and from Griswold's Curiosities of American Literature , may be interesting even as curiosities . First growth on American soil was the Rev. William ...
... feeling , or correctness of dic- tion . " Some specimens however , culled from Kettell and from Griswold's Curiosities of American Literature , may be interesting even as curiosities . First growth on American soil was the Rev. William ...
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... feeling which pours out its energies with a fervour that reaches the heart . " 66 " In this connection " -to use an Americanism , -it may not be amiss to serve up a taste of Joel Barlow's Hasty Pudding . Assist me first with pious toil ...
... feeling which pours out its energies with a fervour that reaches the heart . " 66 " In this connection " -to use an Americanism , -it may not be amiss to serve up a taste of Joel Barlow's Hasty Pudding . Assist me first with pious toil ...
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... feel thee ; thou shalt kiss the child asleep , And dry the moisten'd curls that overspread His temples , while his breathing grows more deep ; And they who stand about the sick man's bed Shall joy to listen to thy distant sweep , And ...
... feel thee ; thou shalt kiss the child asleep , And dry the moisten'd curls that overspread His temples , while his breathing grows more deep ; And they who stand about the sick man's bed Shall joy to listen to thy distant sweep , And ...
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... feels , For the first time , her first - born's breath ; Come when the blessèd seals That close the pestilence are broke , And crowded cities wail its stroke ; Come in consumption's ghastly form , The earthquake shock , the ocean storm ...
... feels , For the first time , her first - born's breath ; Come when the blessèd seals That close the pestilence are broke , And crowded cities wail its stroke ; Come in consumption's ghastly form , The earthquake shock , the ocean storm ...
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