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... poems . ) Petrarch . Poems , original and translated . Life of Dante , [ unfinished . ] Hesperia . MY LIFE IS LIKE THE SUMMER ROSE . My life is like the summer rose , That opens to the morning sky , And ere the shades of evening close ...
... poems . ) Petrarch . Poems , original and translated . Life of Dante , [ unfinished . ] Hesperia . MY LIFE IS LIKE THE SUMMER ROSE . My life is like the summer rose , That opens to the morning sky , And ere the shades of evening close ...
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... poems , and dissertations , which are now collected in his library , and , with their bat- tered blue covers , present a lively type of an army of con- tinentals at the close of the war , or a hospital of invalids . These have all at ...
... poems , and dissertations , which are now collected in his library , and , with their bat- tered blue covers , present a lively type of an army of con- tinentals at the close of the war , or a hospital of invalids . These have all at ...
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... Poems , edited by John James Piatt . WORKS . Prenticeana , [ with life - sketch . ] Mr. Prentice's best known poem is the " Closing Year , " which elocutionists have kept before the public and which has often inspired young poets to sad ...
... Poems , edited by John James Piatt . WORKS . Prenticeana , [ with life - sketch . ] Mr. Prentice's best known poem is the " Closing Year , " which elocutionists have kept before the public and which has often inspired young poets to sad ...
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... Poems : Rodolph , a Fragment , and other Poems . A HEALTH . I fill this cup to one made up Of loveliness alone ; A woman of her gentle sex The seeming paragon ; To whom the better elements And kindly stars have given A form so fair ...
... Poems : Rodolph , a Fragment , and other Poems . A HEALTH . I fill this cup to one made up Of loveliness alone ; A woman of her gentle sex The seeming paragon ; To whom the better elements And kindly stars have given A form so fair ...
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... poems , novels , dramas , histories , biographies , book - reviews , editorials , —in short , all kinds of writing . He was editor of various journals at different times , and did all he could to inspire and foster a literary taste in ...
... poems , novels , dramas , histories , biographies , book - reviews , editorials , —in short , all kinds of writing . He was editor of various journals at different times , and did all he could to inspire and foster a literary taste in ...
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Page 279 - This I sat engaged in guessing, but no syllable expressing To the fowl whose fiery eyes now burned into my bosom's core; This and more I sat divining, with my head at ease reclining On the cushion's velvet lining that the lamp-light gloated o'er, But whose velvet violet lining with the lamp-light gloating o'er She shall press, ah, nevermore ! Then, methought, the air grew denser, perfumed from an unseen censer Swung by seraphim whose foot-falls tinkled on the tufted floor. "Wretch...
Page 277 - ONCE UPON A MIDNIGHT dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore, — While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door. " 'Tis some visitor," I muttered, "tapping at my chamber door; Only this, and nothing more.
Page 78 - The unity of government, which constitutes you one people, is also now dear to you. It is justly so, for it is a main pillar in the edifice of your real independence, the support of your tranquillity at home, your peace abroad, of your safety, of your prosperity, of that very liberty which you so highly prize.
Page 81 - Observe good faith and justice towards all nations; cultivate peace and harmony with all. Religion and morality enjoin this conduct; and can it be that good policy does not equally enjoin it?
Page 280 - Be that word our sign of parting, bird or fiend ! " I shrieked, upstarting. " Get thee back into the tempest and the Night's Plutonian shore ! Leave no black plume as a token of that lie thy soul hath spoken ! Leave my loneliness unbroken ! — quit the bust above my door ! Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door ! " Quoth the Raven,
Page 278 - Then this ebony bird beguiling my sad fancy into smiling By the grave and stern decorum of the countenance it wore, — "Though thy crest be shorn and shaven, thou," I said, " art sure no craven, Ghastly grim and ancient Raven wandering from the Nightly shore: Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night's Plutonian shore ! " Quoth the Raven,
Page 279 - But the Raven still beguiling all my sad soul into smiling, Straight I wheeled a cushioned seat in front of bird, and bust, and door ; Then, upon the velvet sinking, I betook myself to linking Fancy unto fancy, thinking what this ominous bird of yore — What this grim, ungainly, ghastly, gaunt, and ominous bird of yore Meant in croaking "Nevermore.
Page 153 - O'er the land of the free, and the home of the brave! And where is that band who so vauntingly swore That the havoc of war and the battle's confusion A home and a country should leave us no more ? Their blood has washed out their foul footsteps
Page 81 - Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports. In vain would that man claim the tribute of patriotism, who should labour to subvert these great pillars of human happiness, these firmest props of the duties of men and citizens.
Page 153 - O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave? On the shore, dimly seen through the mists of the deep, Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes, What is that which the breeze, o'er the towering steep, As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses?