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Page ix
... poems . It was a poem , that picture . The lines ran together at the right places , the cartwheels flowed into the shed , the lines of the roofs suggested the living going on underneath . A poet had been running the hands of his mind ...
... poems . It was a poem , that picture . The lines ran together at the right places , the cartwheels flowed into the shed , the lines of the roofs suggested the living going on underneath . A poet had been running the hands of his mind ...
Page xv
... poem all along for two hundred years . We have been making it American . On thousands of Friday afternoons during the last century small Americans in the sawed - off pants of their fathers have stood up and declaimed the Elegy as if it ...
... poem all along for two hundred years . We have been making it American . On thousands of Friday afternoons during the last century small Americans in the sawed - off pants of their fathers have stood up and declaimed the Elegy as if it ...
Page xvii
... poem remains . It shines lovelier . For it has the light of life Our life , now . The same old verities are still there . Death is still seen in all its an- cient solemnity in an old American propped up in bed with his gaunt ...
... poem remains . It shines lovelier . For it has the light of life Our life , now . The same old verities are still there . Death is still seen in all its an- cient solemnity in an old American propped up in bed with his gaunt ...
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alive 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 CHURCH COUNTRY CHURCH YARD 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 graver graveyards Gray Gray's ELEGY Hampden hands happen HARPER & BROTHERS Heav'n heave hired houses housewife immortal Italian 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 YARD yonder