American Lyric Poems, from Colonial Times to the PresentElder Olson |
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... look upon her face , You little note beside The timidness that still betrays The beauties it would hide : But one by one , they look out from Her blushes and her eyes ; And still the last the loveliest , Like stars from twilight skies ...
... look upon her face , You little note beside The timidness that still betrays The beauties it would hide : But one by one , they look out from Her blushes and her eyes ; And still the last the loveliest , Like stars from twilight skies ...
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Elder Olson. Then , lady , up , -look out , and be A sister to the night ! Sleep not ! thine image wakes for aye ... looks , whose brightness well might make Of darker nights a day . EDWARD COOTE PINKNEY Song We break the glass , whose ...
Elder Olson. Then , lady , up , -look out , and be A sister to the night ! Sleep not ! thine image wakes for aye ... looks , whose brightness well might make Of darker nights a day . EDWARD COOTE PINKNEY Song We break the glass , whose ...
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... look Less at its features than its darkening frame Where quince and melon , yellow as young flame , Lie with quilled dahlias and the shepherd's crook . Beyond , a garden . There , in insolent ease The lead and marble figures watch the ...
... look Less at its features than its darkening frame Where quince and melon , yellow as young flame , Lie with quilled dahlias and the shepherd's crook . Beyond , a garden . There , in insolent ease The lead and marble figures watch the ...
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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