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... Rose Enthroned 408 Re - enlisted . 410 Psyche at School 413 Thirty - five 414 The Still Hour 417 Near Shore . 419 Across the River 421 THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH- December 1863 422 The Moorland 423 Piscataqua River 424 Pythagoras 425 ...
... Rose Enthroned 408 Re - enlisted . 410 Psyche at School 413 Thirty - five 414 The Still Hour 417 Near Shore . 419 Across the River 421 THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH- December 1863 422 The Moorland 423 Piscataqua River 424 Pythagoras 425 ...
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... our Arms in Mexico 494 PAUL H. HAYNE- Sonnet 496 ALICE BRADLEY NEAL- Midnight 496 JOHN JAMES PIATT— The Mower in Ohio , June 1864 497 Fires in Illinois 499 Land in Cloud 501 JOHN JAMES PIATT - continued . Rose and Root PAGE xvi CONTENTS .
... our Arms in Mexico 494 PAUL H. HAYNE- Sonnet 496 ALICE BRADLEY NEAL- Midnight 496 JOHN JAMES PIATT— The Mower in Ohio , June 1864 497 Fires in Illinois 499 Land in Cloud 501 JOHN JAMES PIATT - continued . Rose and Root PAGE xvi CONTENTS .
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American poems, William Michael Rossetti. JOHN JAMES PIATT - continued . Rose and Root PAGE 502 The Blackberry Farm 502 The Lost Horizon 504 To One in a Darkened House 505 Awake in Darkness 505 Sonnet - In 1862 506 The Unbended Bow . 506 ...
American poems, William Michael Rossetti. JOHN JAMES PIATT - continued . Rose and Root PAGE 502 The Blackberry Farm 502 The Lost Horizon 504 To One in a Darkened House 505 Awake in Darkness 505 Sonnet - In 1862 506 The Unbended Bow . 506 ...
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... rose and orange - flower Through green leaves glad and gay , When bridesmaids , grouped around her room In youth's , in truth's , in beauty's bloom , Entwined , with merry fingers fair , Their garlands in her sunny hair ; Or bosomed ...
... rose and orange - flower Through green leaves glad and gay , When bridesmaids , grouped around her room In youth's , in truth's , in beauty's bloom , Entwined , with merry fingers fair , Their garlands in her sunny hair ; Or bosomed ...
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... rose's hue , And Riches , with " the Golden Fleece : " Where she , the Bride , a Mother now , Encircled round with sons and daughters , Waits my congratulary bow To greet her cottage woods and waters ; And thou art proving , as in youth ...
... rose's hue , And Riches , with " the Golden Fleece : " Where she , the Bride , a Mother now , Encircled round with sons and daughters , Waits my congratulary bow To greet her cottage woods and waters ; And thou art proving , as in youth ...
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Page 15 - To him who in the love of Nature holds Communion with her visible forms, she speaks A various language ; for his gayer hours She has a voice of gladness, and a smile And eloquence of beauty, and she glides Into his darker musings, with a mild And healing sympathy, that steals away Their sharpness ere he is aware.
Page 10 - midst falling dew, While glow the heavens with the last steps of day, Far, through their rosy depths, dost thou pursue Thy solitary way...
Page 226 - Startled at the stillness broken by reply so aptly spoken, "Doubtless," said I, "what it utters is its only stock and store, Caught from some unhappy master whom unmerciful Disaster Followed fast and followed faster till his songs one burden bore: Till the dirges of his Hope that melancholy burden bore Of 'Never — nevermore.
Page 321 - My Captain does not answer, his lips are pale and still, My father does not feel my arm, he has no pulse nor will...
Page 223 - 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 321 - Captain! My Captain! rise up and hear the bells; Rise up - for you the flag is flung - for you the bugle trills, For you bouquets and...
Page 16 - So live, that when thy summons comes to join The innumerable caravan, that moves To that mysterious realm, where each shall take His chamber in the silent halls of death, Thou go not, like the quarry-slave at night, Scourged to his dungeon, but, sustained and soothed By an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave, Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams.
Page 216 - The skies they were ashen and sober; The leaves they were crisped and sere — The leaves they were withering and sere; It was night in the lonesome October Of my most immemorial year...
Page 203 - It was many and many a year ago, In a kingdom by the sea, That a maiden there lived whom you may know By the name of Annabel Lee ; And this maiden she lived with no other thought Than to love and be loved by me.
Page 15 - Yet a few days, and thee The all-beholding sun shall see no more In all his course; nor yet in the cold ground, Where thy pale form was laid, with many tears, Nor in the embrace of ocean, shall exist Thy image. Earth, that nourished thee, shall claim Thy growth, to be resolved to earth again...