American Lyric Poems, from Colonial Times to the PresentElder Olson |
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... once come serve the Muse and merge in verse , even as here I see thee , With storm and buffeting gusts of wind and falling snow , By day thy warning ringing bell to sound its notes , By night thy silent signal lamps to swing . Fierce ...
... once come serve the Muse and merge in verse , even as here I see thee , With storm and buffeting gusts of wind and falling snow , By day thy warning ringing bell to sound its notes , By night thy silent signal lamps to swing . Fierce ...
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... Once by the Pacific The shattered water made a misty din . Great waves looked over others coming in , And thought of doing something to the shore That water never did to land before . The clouds were low and hairy in the skies , 86 ...
... Once by the Pacific The shattered water made a misty din . Great waves looked over others coming in , And thought of doing something to the shore That water never did to land before . The clouds were low and hairy in the skies , 86 ...
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... once ; See where thy spirit runs Which for so long hath had the moon to wife ; Shall this support his life Until the arches of the waves be bent And grow shallow and spent ? Wisely it cast him forth With his dead weight of burdens ...
... once ; See where thy spirit runs Which for so long hath had the moon to wife ; Shall this support his life Until the arches of the waves be bent And grow shallow and spent ? Wisely it cast him forth With his dead weight of burdens ...
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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