Early American Poetry: Selections from Bradstreet, Taylor, Dwight, Freneau, and BryantJane Donahue Eberwein Here is the first major-figure anthology of American poetry of the colonial and early national periods, an indispensable volume for both students and scholars of American literature and civilization. |
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... waste for so's the sacred doom , And do to Gog as thou hast done to Rome . Oh Abraham's seed , 22 lift up your heads on high , For sure the day of your redemption's nigh ; The scales shall fall from your long blinded eyes , And Him you ...
... waste with grief , or agonize with pain . A Tartarus new ! inversion strange of hell ! Guilt wreaks the vengeance , and the guiltless feel . The heart , not form'd of flint , here all things rend ; Each fair a fury , and each man a ...
... waste A single man , disarm'd , Might journey many hundred miles , And not at all be harm'd . Amidst the solitary woods Poor travellers might sleep As free from danger as at home , Though no man watch did keep . Thus were we priviledg'd ...
Contents
ANNE BRADSTREET 16121672 | 3 |
Of the Four Ages of Man | 16 |
From Several Poems | 29 |
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Early American Poetry: Selections from Bradstreet, Taylor, Dwight, Freneau ... Jane Donahue Eberwein No preview available - 1978 |