American Lyric Poems, from Colonial Times to the PresentElder Olson |
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... Deep in the wave is a coral grove , Where the purple mullet and gold - fish rove ; Where the sea - flower spreads its leaves of blue That never are wet with falling dew , But in bright and changeful beauty shine Far down in the green ...
... Deep in the wave is a coral grove , Where the purple mullet and gold - fish rove ; Where the sea - flower spreads its leaves of blue That never are wet with falling dew , But in bright and changeful beauty shine Far down in the green ...
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... deep caves of thought I hear a voice that sings : - Build thee more stately mansions , O my soul , As the swift seasons roll ! Leave thy low - vaulted past ! Let each new temple , nobler than the last , Shut thee from heaven with a dome ...
... deep caves of thought I hear a voice that sings : - Build thee more stately mansions , O my soul , As the swift seasons roll ! Leave thy low - vaulted past ! Let each new temple , nobler than the last , Shut thee from heaven with a dome ...
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... Deep from protruding chests in green - gold medals dressed , planned to command and terrorize the rest , the many wives who lead hens ' lives of being courted and despised ; deep from raw throats a senseless order floats all over town ...
... Deep from protruding chests in green - gold medals dressed , planned to command and terrorize the rest , the many wives who lead hens ' lives of being courted and despised ; deep from raw throats a senseless order floats all over town ...
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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