American Lyric Poems, from Colonial Times to the PresentElder Olson |
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... 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 Through the fair land rejoice ! Thy flitting form comes ghostly ...
... 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 Through the fair land rejoice ! Thy flitting form comes ghostly ...
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... bird came down the walk " A bird came down the walk : He did not know I saw ; He bit an angle - worm in halves And ate the fellow , raw . And then he drank a dew From a convenient grass , And then hopped sideways to the wall To let a ...
... bird came down the walk " A bird came down the walk : He did not know I saw ; He bit an angle - worm in halves And ate the fellow , raw . And then he drank a dew From a convenient grass , And then hopped sideways to the wall To let a ...
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... bird came down the walk , 68 A brackish reach of shoal off Madaket , 149 A narrow fellow in the grass , 67 A route of evanescence , 69 A sound as if from bells of silver , 37 A subtle chain of countless rings , 34 Abraham Lincoln Walks ...
... bird came down the walk , 68 A brackish reach of shoal off Madaket , 149 A narrow fellow in the grass , 67 A route of evanescence , 69 A sound as if from bells of silver , 37 A subtle chain of countless rings , 34 Abraham Lincoln Walks ...
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ANNE BRADSTREET 16121672 | 5 |
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JOHN QUINCY ADAMS 17671848 | 17 |
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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