The Poet in America, 1650 to the PresentAlbert Gelpi |
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... bird above his chamber door- Bird or beast upon the sculptured bust above his chamber door , With such name as " Nevermore . " But the Raven , sitting lonely on the placid bust , spoke only That one word , as if his soul in that one ...
... bird above his chamber door- Bird or beast upon the sculptured bust above his chamber door , With such name as " Nevermore . " But the Raven , sitting lonely on the placid bust , spoke only That one word , as if his soul in that one ...
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... bird , And the tallying chant , the echo arous'd in my soul , With the lustrous and drooping star with the countenance full of woe , With the holders holding my hand nearing the call of the bird , Comrades mine and I in the midst , and ...
... bird , And the tallying chant , the echo arous'd in my soul , With the lustrous and drooping star with the countenance full of woe , With the holders holding my hand nearing the call of the bird , Comrades mine and I in the midst , and ...
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... bird would cease and be as other birds But that he knows in singing not to sing . The question that he frames in all but words Is what to make of a diminished thing . 1A thrush - like bird that builds oven - shaped nests , noted for its ...
... bird would cease and be as other birds But that he knows in singing not to sing . The question that he frames in all but words Is what to make of a diminished thing . 1A thrush - like bird that builds oven - shaped nests , noted for its ...
Contents
Anne Bradstreet 16121672 | 4 |
Philip Pain d 1668? | 11 |
from Preparatory Meditations First Series | 17 |
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¹The Allen Tate American poetry angels beat beauty bird blue breath bright burning Cantos Copyright dance dark dead death dream E. E. Cummings earth Edwin Arlington Robinson Eliot Emily Dickinson eyes Ezra Pound face fire flame flesh flower grass green hand Harvard head hear heart heaven Jeffers land leaves light live look Lord Lowell Marianne Moore mind moon morning mountain never night o'er poem poet Pound Reprinted by permission river Robert Lowell Robinson Jeffers rock rose round shadow shore silence sing sleep snow song soul sound spirit spring stand stars stone sweet T. S. Eliot tell thee things thou thought trees turn University Press verse voice W. D. Snodgrass walk waves Whitman William Carlos Williams William Everson Williams wind wings wood words York Yvor Winters