The American Common-place Book of Poetry: With Occasional Notes |
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... never to be seen ; and the merits of his poetry are almost unknown to those who regulate the criticisms of the public journals . But it is both a proof and a consequence of his original powers and his elevated feelings , that , instead ...
... never to be seen ; and the merits of his poetry are almost unknown to those who regulate the criticisms of the public journals . But it is both a proof and a consequence of his original powers and his elevated feelings , that , instead ...
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... never to know an end . Though in the far horizon lingered yet A lurid gleam ; black clouds were mustering there , Red flashes , followed by low , muttering sounds , Announced the fiery tempest doomed to hurl The fragments of the earth ...
... never to know an end . Though in the far horizon lingered yet A lurid gleam ; black clouds were mustering there , Red flashes , followed by low , muttering sounds , Announced the fiery tempest doomed to hurl The fragments of the earth ...
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... never are wet with falling dew , But in bright and changeful beauty shine , Far down in the green and glassy brine . The floor is of sand , like the mountain drift , And the pearl shells spangle the flinty snow ; From coral rocks the ...
... never are wet with falling dew , But in bright and changeful beauty shine , Far down in the green and glassy brine . The floor is of sand , like the mountain drift , And the pearl shells spangle the flinty snow ; From coral rocks the ...
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... never summer ray Glanced , till the strong tornado broke his way Through the gray giants of the sylvan wild ; Yet many a sheltered glade , with blossoms gay , Beneath the showery sky and sunshine mild , Within the shaggy arms of that ...
... never summer ray Glanced , till the strong tornado broke his way Through the gray giants of the sylvan wild ; Yet many a sheltered glade , with blossoms gay , Beneath the showery sky and sunshine mild , Within the shaggy arms of that ...
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... never has a summer's morning smiled Upon a lovelier scene , than the full eye Of the enthusiast revels on - when high , Amid thy forest solitudes , he climbs O'er crags that proudly tower above the deep , And knows that sense of danger ...
... never has a summer's morning smiled Upon a lovelier scene , than the full eye Of the enthusiast revels on - when high , Amid thy forest solitudes , he climbs O'er crags that proudly tower above the deep , And knows that sense of danger ...
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