American Lyric Poems, from Colonial Times to the PresentElder Olson |
From inside the book
Results 1-3 of 13
Page 19
... Take , oh take that heart from me . JOHN SHAW The Little Beach Bird Thou little bird , thou dweller by the sea , Why takest thou its melancholy voice ? Why with that boding cry O'er the waves dost thou fly ? O , rather , bird , with me ...
... Take , oh take that heart from me . JOHN SHAW The Little Beach Bird Thou little bird , thou dweller by the sea , Why takest thou its melancholy voice ? Why with that boding cry O'er the waves dost thou fly ? O , rather , bird , with me ...
Page 23
... Take the wings Of morning , traverse Barca's desert sands , Or lose thyself in the continuous woods Where rolls the Oregon , and hears no sound , Save his own dashings - yet - the dead are there : And millions in those solitudes , since ...
... Take the wings Of morning , traverse Barca's desert sands , Or lose thyself in the continuous woods Where rolls the Oregon , and hears no sound , Save his own dashings - yet - the dead are there : And millions in those solitudes , since ...
Page 140
... Take back your dreams , or take oblivion there , Or an old madness setting memories free- Or if all else has vanished into air , Take me . GEORGE DILLON The Beast I came to a great door , Its lintel overhung With burr , bramble , and ...
... Take back your dreams , or take oblivion there , Or an old madness setting memories free- Or if all else has vanished into air , Take me . GEORGE DILLON The Beast I came to a great door , Its lintel overhung With burr , bramble , and ...
Contents
ANNE BRADSTREET 16121672 | 5 |
from Contemplations | 11 |
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS 17671848 | 17 |
Copyright | |
24 other sections not shown
Common terms and phrases
Atlantic beauty bells beneath bird blood bloom blue bones breath bright cloud cold CONRAD AIKEN Copyright dark dead death deer door dream dust E. E. CUMMINGS earth ELINOR WYLIE EMILY DICKINSON eyes face fall feet floating flower four lean hounds GEORGE DILLON girls gold golden golden girls Goya grass green HART CRANE heart heaven hill hounds crouched low KARL SHAPIRO land leaf lean hounds crouched LÉONIE ADAMS light living look LOUISE BOGAN love riding low and smiling lyric never night pale Poems rain ROBERT FROST ROBINSON JEFFERS rooster rose Sailor sang shadow shine shore silent silver dawn singing skies sleep snow song soul sound spring star stare steeple-jack stones storm stream summer sweet thee thine thing thou tide trees TRUMBULL STICKNEY VINCENT MILLAY voice walk WALLACE STEVENS watch waves weeping wind wings