American Lyric Poems, from Colonial Times to the PresentElder Olson |
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... Light - winged Smoke ! Icarian bird , Melting thy pinions in thy upward flight ; Lark without song , and messenger of dawn , Circling above the hamlets as thy nest ; Or else , departing dream , and shadowy form Of midnight vision ...
... Light - winged Smoke ! Icarian bird , Melting thy pinions in thy upward flight ; Lark without song , and messenger of dawn , Circling above the hamlets as thy nest ; Or else , departing dream , and shadowy form Of midnight vision ...
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... light within this brain ? Is this the Thing the Lord God made and gave To have dominion over sea and land ; To trace the stars and search the heavens for power ; To feel the passion of Eternity ? Is this the dream He dreamed who shaped ...
... light within this brain ? Is this the Thing the Lord God made and gave To have dominion over sea and land ; To trace the stars and search the heavens for power ; To feel the passion of Eternity ? Is this the dream He dreamed who shaped ...
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... light like an artery , The ambulance at top speed floating down Past beacons and illuminated clocks Wings in a heavy curve , dips down , And brakes speed , entering the crowd . The doors leap open , emptying light ; Stretchers are laid ...
... light like an artery , The ambulance at top speed floating down Past beacons and illuminated clocks Wings in a heavy curve , dips down , And brakes speed , entering the crowd . The doors leap open , emptying light ; Stretchers are laid ...
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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