The New Oxford Book of American VerseRichard Ellmann An anthology of poems by American poets from Taylor and Bradstreet to Plath, Ginsberg, and Ashbery, reflecting the traditions and achievements of three centuries. |
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... fields known to bird and fox . But he would come in the very hour It opened in its virgin bower , As if a sunbeam ... fields , the orchis grew . Many haps fall in the field Seldom seen by wishful 56 RALPH WALDO EMERSON.
... fields known to bird and fox . But he would come in the very hour It opened in its virgin bower , As if a sunbeam ... fields , the orchis grew . Many haps fall in the field Seldom seen by wishful 56 RALPH WALDO EMERSON.
Page 95
... silent syllables recorded ; This is the secret of despair , Long in its cloudy bosom hoarded , Now whispered and revealed To wood and field . Aftermath When the summer fields are mown , When the 95 HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Snow-Flakes,
... silent syllables recorded ; This is the secret of despair , Long in its cloudy bosom hoarded , Now whispered and revealed To wood and field . Aftermath When the summer fields are mown , When the 95 HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Snow-Flakes,
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... fields of clover and timothy , and your corn - fields and orchards , Keep the blossoming buckwheat fields where the Ninth - month bees hum ; Give me faces and streets ― endless along the trottoirs ! give me these phantoms incessant and ...
... fields of clover and timothy , and your corn - fields and orchards , Keep the blossoming buckwheat fields where the Ninth - month bees hum ; Give me faces and streets ― endless along the trottoirs ! give me these phantoms incessant and ...
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ANNE BRADSTREET ?16121672 | 1 |
Upon a Spider Catching a Fly | 14 |
JOEL BARLOW 17541812 | 24 |
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