The American Common-place Book of Poetry: With Occasional Notes |
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Page 35
... gentle race of flowers Are lying in their lowly beds , with the fair and good of ours . The rain is falling where they lie ; but the cold November rain Calls not , from out the gloomy earth , the lovely ones again . The wind - flower ...
... gentle race of flowers Are lying in their lowly beds , with the fair and good of ours . The rain is falling where they lie ; but the cold November rain Calls not , from out the gloomy earth , the lovely ones again . The wind - flower ...
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... gentle and so beautiful , should perish with the flowers . The Skies . - BRYANT . Ay , gloriously thou standest there , Beautiful , boundless firmament ! That , swelling wide o'er earth and air , And round the horizon bent , With that ...
... gentle and so beautiful , should perish with the flowers . The Skies . - BRYANT . Ay , gloriously thou standest there , Beautiful , boundless firmament ! That , swelling wide o'er earth and air , And round the horizon bent , With that ...
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... gentle showers , It yields the purest sweetness to the breeze , Or all the tranquil atmosphere perfumes . E'en from the juicy leaves , of sudden growth , And the rank grass of steaming ground , the air , Filled with a watery glimmering ...
... gentle showers , It yields the purest sweetness to the breeze , Or all the tranquil atmosphere perfumes . E'en from the juicy leaves , of sudden growth , And the rank grass of steaming ground , the air , Filled with a watery glimmering ...
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... gently rocking , sits , Her strain repeating . Slavery . - CARLOS WILCOX . ALL are born free , and all with equal rights . So speaks the charter of a nation Of her unequalled liberties and laws , d While , in that nation , -shameful to ...
... gently rocking , sits , Her strain repeating . Slavery . - CARLOS WILCOX . ALL are born free , and all with equal rights . So speaks the charter of a nation Of her unequalled liberties and laws , d While , in that nation , -shameful to ...
Page 62
... gentle hand , From fronting shore and woody island near In echoes quick returned more mellow and more clear . And he could cherish wild and mournful dreams , In the pine grove , when low the full moon , fair , Shot under lofty tops her ...
... gentle hand , From fronting shore and woody island near In echoes quick returned more mellow and more clear . And he could cherish wild and mournful dreams , In the pine grove , when low the full moon , fair , Shot under lofty tops her ...
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