A Library of Poetry and Song: Being Choice Selections from the Best PoetsWilliam Cullen Bryant |
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... leaves " . Old - School Punishment " Only waiting Origin of the Opal Orphans , The Perils of the Pave , The 249 269 26 266 654 246 767 288 357 Robin Hood and Allen - a - Dale Sebastopol taken - in and done for ( London Diogenes ) 496 ...
... leaves " . Old - School Punishment " Only waiting Origin of the Opal Orphans , The Perils of the Pave , The 249 269 26 266 654 246 767 288 357 Robin Hood and Allen - a - Dale Sebastopol taken - in and done for ( London Diogenes ) 496 ...
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... leaves , and silver showers , - These , erelong , the ear forgets ; But in mine there is a sound Ringing on the whole year round , - Heart - deep laughter that I heard Ere my child could speak a word . - Ah ! ' t was heard by ear far ...
... leaves , and silver showers , - These , erelong , the ear forgets ; But in mine there is a sound Ringing on the whole year round , - Heart - deep laughter that I heard Ere my child could speak a word . - Ah ! ' t was heard by ear far ...
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... leaves of love were curled So close and close about our wee White Rose of all the world . With mystical faint fragrance Our house of life she filled ; Revealed each hour some fairy tower Where winged hopes might build ! We saw though ...
... leaves of love were curled So close and close about our wee White Rose of all the world . With mystical faint fragrance Our house of life she filled ; Revealed each hour some fairy tower Where winged hopes might build ! We saw though ...
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... leaves . Sweetly his pale arms folded My neck in a meek embrace , As the light of immortal beauty Silently covered his face ; And when the arrows of sunset Lodged in the tree - tops bright , He fell , in his saint - like beauty , Asleep ...
... leaves . Sweetly his pale arms folded My neck in a meek embrace , As the light of immortal beauty Silently covered his face ; And when the arrows of sunset Lodged in the tree - tops bright , He fell , in his saint - like beauty , Asleep ...
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... leaves in shadow , On her shining hair and face . II . She has thrown her bonnet by , And her feet she has been dipping In the shallow water's flow . Now she holds them nakedly In her hands all sleek and dripping , While she rocketh to ...
... leaves in shadow , On her shining hair and face . II . She has thrown her bonnet by , And her feet she has been dipping In the shallow water's flow . Now she holds them nakedly In her hands all sleek and dripping , While she rocketh to ...
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