American Lyric Poems, from Colonial Times to the PresentElder Olson |
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... sound its notes , By night thy silent signal lamps to swing . Fierce - throated beauty ! Roll through my chant with all thy lawless music , thy swing- ing lamps at night , Thy madly - whistled laughter , echoing , rumbling like an earth ...
... sound its notes , By night thy silent signal lamps to swing . Fierce - throated beauty ! Roll through my chant with all thy lawless music , thy swing- ing lamps at night , Thy madly - whistled laughter , echoing , rumbling like an earth ...
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... sound . The day is like wide water , without sound , Stilled for the passing of her dreaming feet Over the seas , to silent Palestine , Dominion of the blood and sepulchre . Why should she give her bounty to the dead ? What is divinity ...
... sound . The day is like wide water , without sound , Stilled for the passing of her dreaming feet Over the seas , to silent Palestine , Dominion of the blood and sepulchre . Why should she give her bounty to the dead ? What is divinity ...
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... sound , A voice that cries , " The tomb in Palestine Is not the porch of spirits lingering . It is the grave of Jesus , where He lay . " We live in an old chaos of the sun , Or old dependency of day and night , Or island solitude ...
... sound , A voice that cries , " The tomb in Palestine Is not the porch of spirits lingering . It is the grave of Jesus , where He lay . " We live in an old chaos of the sun , Or old dependency of day and night , Or island solitude ...
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ANNE BRADSTREET 16121672 | 5 |
from Contemplations | 11 |
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