Poetry of America: Selections from One Hundred American Poets from 1776 to 1876 |
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... strong and revered ; With transport they cried , " Now our wishes we gain , For our children shall gather the fruits of our pain . " In freedom , etc. How sweet are the labours that freemen endure , Of which they enjoy all the profits ...
... strong and revered ; With transport they cried , " Now our wishes we gain , For our children shall gather the fruits of our pain . " In freedom , etc. How sweet are the labours that freemen endure , Of which they enjoy all the profits ...
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... strong Niagara's thunders wake The echo of the world , Where red Missouri bringeth Rich tribute from the West , And Rappahannock sweetly sleeps On green Virginia's breast . Ye say their cone - like cabins , That cluster'd o'er the vale ...
... strong Niagara's thunders wake The echo of the world , Where red Missouri bringeth Rich tribute from the West , And Rappahannock sweetly sleeps On green Virginia's breast . Ye say their cone - like cabins , That cluster'd o'er the vale ...
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... strong wind of day doth mingle sea and cloud . On thine unaltering blaze , The half - wreck'd mariner , his compass lost , Fixes his steady gaze , And steers , undoubting , to the friendly coast ; And they who stray in perilous wastes ...
... strong wind of day doth mingle sea and cloud . On thine unaltering blaze , The half - wreck'd mariner , his compass lost , Fixes his steady gaze , And steers , undoubting , to the friendly coast ; And they who stray in perilous wastes ...
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... strong and faint of spirit , the meek and men of pride . Steps of earth's great and mighty , between those pillars gray , And prints of little feet , mark the dust along the way . And some approach the threshold whose looks are blank ...
... strong and faint of spirit , the meek and men of pride . Steps of earth's great and mighty , between those pillars gray , And prints of little feet , mark the dust along the way . And some approach the threshold whose looks are blank ...
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... strong . Come , East and West and North , By races , as snow - flakes , And carry my purpose forth , Which neither halts nor shakes ! My will fulfill'd shall be , For , in daylight or in dark , My thunderbolt has eyes to see His way ...
... strong . Come , East and West and North , By races , as snow - flakes , And carry my purpose forth , Which neither halts nor shakes ! My will fulfill'd shall be , For , in daylight or in dark , My thunderbolt has eyes to see His way ...
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