American Lyric Poems, from Colonial Times to the PresentElder Olson |
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... living jewels of the spring ! JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER The Last Leaf I saw him once before , As he passed by the door , And again The pavement stones resound , As he totters o'er the ground With his cane . They say that in his prime ...
... living jewels of the spring ! JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER The Last Leaf I saw him once before , As he passed by the door , And again The pavement stones resound , As he totters o'er the ground With his cane . They say that in his prime ...
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... living Word to every living thing , Albeit it hold the Message unawares . All shapes and sounds have something which is not Of them : a Spirit broods amid the grass ; Vague outlines of the Everlasting Thought Lie in the melting shadows ...
... living Word to every living thing , Albeit it hold the Message unawares . All shapes and sounds have something which is not Of them : a Spirit broods amid the grass ; Vague outlines of the Everlasting Thought Lie in the melting shadows ...
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... living for . Should the buyer have been beware ? It is an uneven trade For man has wet his hair Under the winter weather With only fog for shade : His mouth a bracketed hole Picked by the crows that bore Nature to their hanged brother ...
... living for . Should the buyer have been beware ? It is an uneven trade For man has wet his hair Under the winter weather With only fog for shade : His mouth a bracketed hole Picked by the crows that bore Nature to their hanged brother ...
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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