American Lyric Poems, from Colonial Times to the PresentElder Olson |
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... ocean wilt thou find , Nor in the circling air , a heart . Fairest ! wouldst thou perfect be , Take , oh take that heart from me . JOHN SHAW The Little Beach Bird Thou little bird , thou dweller by the sea , Why takest thou its ...
... ocean wilt thou find , Nor in the circling air , a heart . Fairest ! wouldst thou perfect be , Take , oh take that heart from me . JOHN SHAW The Little Beach Bird Thou little bird , thou dweller by the sea , Why takest thou its ...
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... ocean follows and obeys . Ring out your censure with the crier's bell ; For beauty lives not by your blame or praise ; But , as you rate it , thus your worth you tell . CXCIV Three seasons only in his calendar My love has counted ...
... ocean follows and obeys . Ring out your censure with the crier's bell ; For beauty lives not by your blame or praise ; But , as you rate it , thus your worth you tell . CXCIV Three seasons only in his calendar My love has counted ...
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... ocean , Too silver for a seam , Or butterflies , off banks of noon , Leap , plashless , as they swim . EMILY DICKINSON " The bustle in a house " The bustle in a house The morning after death Is solemnest of industries Enacted upon earth ...
... ocean , Too silver for a seam , Or butterflies , off banks of noon , Leap , plashless , as they swim . EMILY DICKINSON " The bustle in a house " The bustle in a house The morning after death Is solemnest of industries Enacted upon earth ...
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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