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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... doth most of all desire ) . His suit of crimson and his scarf of green , His pride in's countenance was quickly seen ; 25 25 1. This debate is the third of Bradstreet's four quaternions and may best be appreciated in light of the ...
... doth hold . I've done ; unto my elders I give way , For ' tis but little that a child can say . Youth My goodly clothing , and my beauteous skin Declare some greater riches are within : But what is best I'll first present to view , 135 ...
... doth hurry me to all that's ill : I know no law nor reason but my will . Sometimes lay wait to take a wealthy purse , Or stab the man in's own defence ( that's worse ) . Sometimes I cheat ( unkind ) a female heir Of all at once , who ...
... doth menace me : Sometimes the twofold pox me sore be - mars With outward marks and inward loathsome scars , Sometimes the frenzy strangely mads my brain , That oft for it in bedlam I remain . Too many my diseases to recite , That ...
... doth sadly torture me , And the restraining , lame sciatica . The asthma , megrim , palsy , lethargy , The quartan ague , dropsy , lunacy : Subject to all distempers , that's the truth , Though some more incident to Age or Youth . And ...
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 |
Early American Poetry: Selections from Bradstreet, Taylor, Dwight, Freneau ... Jane Donahue Eberwein No preview available - 1978 |