Early American Poetry: Selections from Bradstreet, Taylor, Dwight, Freneau, and BryantHere is the first major-figure anthology of American poetry of the colonial and early national periods, an indispensable volume for both students and scholars of American literature and civilization. |
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... green to show2 His spring was intermixed with some snow : Upon his head nature a garland set Of primrose , daisy and the violet . Such cold mean flowers the spring puts forth betime Before the sun hath thoroughly heat the clime . His ...
... green : What they have done , the same was done by me , As was their praise or shame , so mine must be . Now age is more ; more good you may expect , But more mine age , the more is my defect . When my wild oats were sown and ripe and ...
... and fruits seemed painted , but was true , Of green , of red , of yellow , mixed hue ; Rapt were my senses at this delectable view . 1. Apollo , the sun god . 90 30 10 5 10 15 20 20 2 I wist not what to 46 Anne Bradstreet Contemplations.
... green , 120 The stones and trees , insensible of time , Nor age nor wrinkle on their front are seen ; If winter come and greenness then do fade , A spring returns , and they more youthful made ; But man grows old , lies down , remains ...
... green field , And take the trembling prey before it yield , Whose armour is their scales , their spreading fins their shield . 26 While musing thus with contemplation fed , And thousand fancies buzzing in my brain , The sweet - tongued ...
Contents
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Timothy Dwight 17521817 | 121 |
Philip Freneau 17521832 | 190 |
William Cullen Bryant 17941878 | 254 |
Appendix | 319 |
Index of Poets and Titles | 377 |
Index of First Lines | 381 |
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Early American Poetry: Selections from Bradstreet, Taylor, Dwight, Freneau ... Jane Donahue Eberwein No preview available - 1978 |