The Magazine of Poetry and Literary Review, Volume 51893 - American poetry |
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... Verses " ( Boston , 1871 ) ; " Bits of Travel " ( 1872 ) ; " Bits of Talk About Home Matters " ( 1873 ) ; " The Story of Boon " ( Boston , 1874 ) ; " Bits of Talk in Verse and Prose , " for young folks , ( Boston , 1876 ) ; “ Mercy ...
... Verses " ( Boston , 1871 ) ; " Bits of Travel " ( 1872 ) ; " Bits of Talk About Home Matters " ( 1873 ) ; " The Story of Boon " ( Boston , 1874 ) ; " Bits of Talk in Verse and Prose , " for young folks , ( Boston , 1876 ) ; “ Mercy ...
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... verse , or rather , a singer , not only of the beautiful in nature , but of that which had to do with the heart of humanity . She has been a contributor for years to the press of the land , and her poems appearing in various papers and ...
... verse , or rather , a singer , not only of the beautiful in nature , but of that which had to do with the heart of humanity . She has been a contributor for years to the press of the land , and her poems appearing in various papers and ...
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... verse . A fond- ness for composition began its development about that time , and sketches from her pen , in the form of both poetry and prose , found their way into the local papers . She gave no particular evidence of a tendency to ...
... verse . A fond- ness for composition began its development about that time , and sketches from her pen , in the form of both poetry and prose , found their way into the local papers . She gave no particular evidence of a tendency to ...
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... verses on a slate for pleasure and recreation . He loved the sea passionately and when its inspiration was upon him he poured out verse after verse . But it was not until 1827 that any of his efforts appeared in print , and then it was ...
... verses on a slate for pleasure and recreation . He loved the sea passionately and when its inspiration was upon him he poured out verse after verse . But it was not until 1827 that any of his efforts appeared in print , and then it was ...
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... verse exem- plifies the ornate in poetry ; nothing can excel the delicate chiselling , the chaste coloring , and the exquisite polish of his lines and stanzas , and there is such a delicious blending of sound and sense pervading the ...
... verse exem- plifies the ornate in poetry ; nothing can excel the delicate chiselling , the chaste coloring , and the exquisite polish of his lines and stanzas , and there is such a delicious blending of sound and sense pervading the ...
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Page 220 - A wicked whisper came, and made My heart as dry as dust. I closed my lids, and kept them close, And the balls like pulses beat; For the sky and the sea, and the sea and the sky Lay like a load on my weary eye, And the dead were at my feet.
Page 34 - For I dipt into the future, far as human eye could see — Saw the Vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be ; Saw the heavens...
Page 128 - 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 133 - Hear the tolling of the bells, Iron bells! What a world of solemn thought their monody compels! In the silence of the night How we shiver with affright At the melancholy menace of their tone ! For every sound that floats From the rust within their throats Is a groan.
Page 133 - Oh, from out the sounding cells What a gush of euphony voluminously wells! How it swells! How it dwells On the Future ! how it tells Of the rapture that impels To the swinging and the ringing Of the bells, bells, bells, Of the bells, bells, bells, bells— To the rhyming and the chiming of the bells!
Page 225 - Fair as a garden of the Lord To the eyes of the famished rebel horde. On that pleasant morn of the early fall When Lee marched over the mountain wall, Over the mountains, winding down, Horse and foot into Frederick town, Forty flags with their silver stars, Forty flags with their crimson bars, Flapped in the morning wind ; the sun Of noon looked down, and saw not one.
Page 384 - There will I ask of Christ the Lord Thus much for him and me: — Only to live as once on earth With Love, — only to be, As then awhile, for ever now Together, I and he." She gazed and listened and then said, Less sad of speech than mild, — "All this is when he comes.
Page 31 - Theirs not to make reply, Theirs not to reason why, Theirs but to do and die. Into the valley of Death Rode the six hundred. Cannon to right of them, Cannon to left of them, Cannon in front of them Volley'd and thunder'd.
Page 225 - 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?
Page 133 - Too much horrified to speak, They can only shriek, shriek, Out of tune, In a clamorous appealing to the mercy of the fire, In a mad expostulation with the deaf and frantic fire Leaping higher, higher, higher, With a desperate desire, And a resolute endeavor, Now — now to sit or never, By the side of the pale-faced moon.