American Lyric Poems, from Colonial Times to the PresentElder Olson |
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... things from nothing ; and with ease Can speake all things to nothing , if he please . Whose Little finger at his pleasure Can Out mete ten thousand worlds with halfe a Span : Whose Might Almighty can by half a looks Root up the rocks ...
... things from nothing ; and with ease Can speake all things to nothing , if he please . Whose Little finger at his pleasure Can Out mete ten thousand worlds with halfe a Span : Whose Might Almighty can by half a looks Root up the rocks ...
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... things in some procession of the dead , Winding across wide water , without sound . The day is like wide water ... Things to be cherished like the thought of heaven ? Divinity must live within herself : Passions of rain , or moods in ...
... things in some procession of the dead , Winding across wide water , without sound . The day is like wide water ... Things to be cherished like the thought of heaven ? Divinity must live within herself : Passions of rain , or moods in ...
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... things , how all things flow , Stood in a light no life is witness of , And Socrates , whose wisdom was to know He did not know , spoke with a solemn mien , And all his wonderful ugliness was lit , ' He whom I loved for what he might ...
... things , how all things flow , Stood in a light no life is witness of , And Socrates , whose wisdom was to know He did not know , spoke with a solemn mien , And all his wonderful ugliness was lit , ' He whom I loved for what he might ...
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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