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“ Thanatopsis , " for example , was followed by “ The Yellow Violet , ” which was followed by the “ Inscription for the Entrance to a Wood , " and the song beginning “ Soon as the glazed and gleaming snow . ” The exquisite lines “ To a ...
“ Thanatopsis , " for example , was followed by “ The Yellow Violet , ” which was followed by the “ Inscription for the Entrance to a Wood , " and the song beginning “ Soon as the glazed and gleaming snow . ” The exquisite lines “ To a ...
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American poetry may be said to have commenced in 1817 with the September number of the North American Review , which contained “ Thanatopsis ” and the Inscription for the Entrance of a Wood , ” the last being printed as a “ Fragment .
American poetry may be said to have commenced in 1817 with the September number of the North American Review , which contained “ Thanatopsis ” and the Inscription for the Entrance of a Wood , ” the last being printed as a “ Fragment .
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My brother and myself , in emulation of the ancient heroes , made for ourselves wooden shields , swords and spears , and fashioned old hats in the shape of helmets with plumes of tow , and in the barn , when nobody observed us ...
My brother and myself , in emulation of the ancient heroes , made for ourselves wooden shields , swords and spears , and fashioned old hats in the shape of helmets with plumes of tow , and in the barn , when nobody observed us ...
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As he trod up on the hollow - sounding ground in the loneliness of the woods and among the prostrate trunks of trees that for generations had been moldering into dust , he thought how the vast solitudes about him were filled with the ...
As he trod up on the hollow - sounding ground in the loneliness of the woods and among the prostrate trunks of trees that for generations had been moldering into dust , he thought how the vast solitudes about him were filled with the ...
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“ Another poem , Inscription for the Entrance to a Wood , published in the North American Review , 1817 , under the title of A Fragment , was composed in an old forest fronting his father's house . ” 1817 .
“ Another poem , Inscription for the Entrance to a Wood , published in the North American Review , 1817 , under the title of A Fragment , was composed in an old forest fronting his father's house . ” 1817 .
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