American Lyric Poems, from Colonial Times to the PresentElder Olson |
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... dream the Saga's dream of caves Gem - lit beneath the North Sea waves ! I walk the land of Eldorado , I touch its mimic garden bowers , Its silver leaves and diamond flowers ! The flora of the mystic mine - world Around me lifts on ...
... dream the Saga's dream of caves Gem - lit beneath the North Sea waves ! I walk the land of Eldorado , I touch its mimic garden bowers , Its silver leaves and diamond flowers ! The flora of the mystic mine - world Around me lifts on ...
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... dream of Spring " It is in Winter that we dream of Spring ; For all the barren bleakness and the cold , The longing fancy sees the frozen mould Decked with sweet blossoming . Though all the birds be silent , -though The fettered ...
... dream of Spring " It is in Winter that we dream of Spring ; For all the barren bleakness and the cold , The longing fancy sees the frozen mould Decked with sweet blossoming . Though all the birds be silent , -though The fettered ...
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... dream Of leaf and bloom among the trees , And sunlight glancing on the stream . Though , to the eye , the joyless landscape yields No faintest sign to which the hope might cling , — Amidst the pallid desert of the fields , - It is in ...
... dream Of leaf and bloom among the trees , And sunlight glancing on the stream . Though , to the eye , the joyless landscape yields No faintest sign to which the hope might cling , — Amidst the pallid desert of the fields , - It is in ...
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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