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Page vii
... alive , they have the disturbing qualities of uncomfortableness , ruthlessness , un- reality , and surprise . Surprise is the worst , I guess , for most of us fight , from the time we grip our first baby blankets with both hands till we ...
... alive , they have the disturbing qualities of uncomfortableness , ruthlessness , un- reality , and surprise . Surprise is the worst , I guess , for most of us fight , from the time we grip our first baby blankets with both hands till we ...
Page xiii
... alive operate . Once I called J. J.'s attention to the fact that he had never done what I think ought to be the Great Seal of these United States instead of the ancient Roman bird of prey that happens to perch on our state . It is the ...
... alive operate . Once I called J. J.'s attention to the fact that he had never done what I think ought to be the Great Seal of these United States instead of the ancient Roman bird of prey that happens to perch on our state . It is the ...
Page xv
... alive . When Chaucer wrote of the Trojan men and women , he put them into mediaeval doublet - and - hose and gores , he put them into Norman castles and made chivalric knights and ladies of them . They speak English proverbs and idioms ...
... alive . When Chaucer wrote of the Trojan men and women , he put them into mediaeval doublet - and - hose and gores , he put them into Norman castles and made chivalric knights and ladies of them . They speak English proverbs and idioms ...
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alive American thunderclouds angles artists autumn leaves baited barns beauty beneath Blake block blush boat brook brought Brushing bulge carpenter chewing City of Portland clouds color comes home COUNTRY CHURCHYARD cutting discovered J.J. Lankes door E'en e'er ELEGY WRITTEN Elizabethan elms England English eyes feather footprints Forbade frozen geniuses gingerbread Graved graveyards Gray Gray's ELEGY Hampden hands happen HARPER & BROTHERS Heav'n heave hired houses housewife immortal Italian J. J. Lankes J. J. Lankes's ladies leaf light lines look mediaeval missed modern American morning Negroes never o'er once pants paper pity and peace plowman poem Poetry printing press right places Robert Frost roofs ruin safely dead sculpture shed shirt sleeves shudder smiling snow soul stick take pains talk tear things thumb took trees TRISTRAM COFFIN Trying to live uncle village Virginian Williamsburg wintry wood woodcut wooden words yonder