American Lyric Poems, from Colonial Times to the PresentElder Olson |
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... cloud Mantled around thy feet . And He doth give Thy voice of thunder , power to speak of Him Eternally - bidding the lip of man Keep silence and upon thy rocky altar pour Incense of awe - struck praise . Ah ! who can dare To lift the ...
... cloud Mantled around thy feet . And He doth give Thy voice of thunder , power to speak of Him Eternally - bidding the lip of man Keep silence and upon thy rocky altar pour Incense of awe - struck praise . Ah ! who can dare To lift the ...
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... cloud descend . Now shall you see pent oak gone gusty and frantic , Stooped with dry weeping , ruinously unloosing The sparse disheveled leaf , or reared and tossing A dreary scarecrow bough in funeral antic . Aye , tatter you and rend ...
... cloud descend . Now shall you see pent oak gone gusty and frantic , Stooped with dry weeping , ruinously unloosing The sparse disheveled leaf , or reared and tossing A dreary scarecrow bough in funeral antic . Aye , tatter you and rend ...
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... Cloud - white upon Amazing blue The silken billow Bellies and fills , A windy pillow For the heads of hills . Ships fling a flag And a golden sail Down seas whose shaggy Waters pale On a rock - sharp shore Where cold weeds swim . In ...
... Cloud - white upon Amazing blue The silken billow Bellies and fills , A windy pillow For the heads of hills . Ships fling a flag And a golden sail Down seas whose shaggy Waters pale On a rock - sharp shore Where cold weeds swim . In ...
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Introduction | 1 |
from Contemplations | 11 |
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS 17671848 | 17 |
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Atlantic beauty bells beneath bird blood bloom blue bones breast breath cloud cold CONRAD AIKEN Copyright dark dead death 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 stream summer sweet thee thine thing thou tide trees TRUMBULL STICKNEY VINCENT MILLAY voice walk WALLACE STEVENS watch waves weeping wind wings world goes turning