A Library of Poetry and Song: Being Choice Selections from the Best PoetsWilliam Cullen Bryant |
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... Flower's Name , The 49 503 How they brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix 397 In a Year 166 382 Incident of ... Flowers , The 370 " Come to these scenes of peace " 326 Evening Wind , The 299 Greenwood , The 325 Fatima and Raduan ...
... Flower's Name , The 49 503 How they brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix 397 In a Year 166 382 Incident of ... Flowers , The 370 " Come to these scenes of peace " 326 Evening Wind , The 299 Greenwood , The 325 Fatima and Raduan ...
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... Flower , The . 187 366 Use of Flowers , The 370 KINGSLEY , CHARLES . England , b . 1819 . HOWITT , WILLIAM . A Rough Rhyme on a Rough Matter 198 England , b . 1795 . Fishermen , The 483 Departure of the Swallow , The Merry Lark , The ...
... Flower , The . 187 366 Use of Flowers , The 370 KINGSLEY , CHARLES . England , b . 1819 . HOWITT , WILLIAM . A Rough Rhyme on a Rough Matter 198 England , b . 1795 . Fishermen , The 483 Departure of the Swallow , The Merry Lark , The ...
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... Flowers , The Resignation Retribution Sea - Weed England , b . 1831 . 406 Aux Italiens 404 The Chess - Board 170 77 96 MACAULAY , LORD . England , 1800-1859 . Horatius at the Bridge Naseby 65 Moncontour 431 438 438 39 MAC - CARTHY ...
... Flowers , The Resignation Retribution Sea - Weed England , b . 1831 . 406 Aux Italiens 404 The Chess - Board 170 77 96 MACAULAY , LORD . England , 1800-1859 . Horatius at the Bridge Naseby 65 Moncontour 431 438 438 39 MAC - CARTHY ...
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... flowers will be left in unvisited spots , as beautiful as those which have been taken . It may happen , therefore , that many who have learned to delight in some particular poem will turn these pages , as they might those of other ...
... flowers will be left in unvisited spots , as beautiful as those which have been taken . It may happen , therefore , that many who have learned to delight in some particular poem will turn these pages , as they might those of other ...
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... flowers or in the female face . There is no poet , indeed no author in any department of literature , who can be taken as a standard in judging of others ; the true standard is an ideal one , and even this is not the same in all men's ...
... flowers or in the female face . There is no poet , indeed no author in any department of literature , who can be taken as a standard in judging of others ; the true standard is an ideal one , and even this is not the same in all men's ...
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ALEXANDER POPE ALFRED TENNYSON beauty bells beneath bird blessed bosom brave breast breath bright brow cheek child clouds cold dark dead dear death deep doth dream earth ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING eyes face fair fear flowers gentle gone grace grave green hand happy hast hath hear heard heart heaven HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW hill hour JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER king kiss lady land leaves light lips live look Lord moon morning mother ne'er never nevermore night o'er PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY praise rest ROBERT BURNS rose round shine shore sigh silent sing sleep smile soft song sorrow soul sound spirit spring stars stood sweet tears tell thee thine things THOMAS HOOD THOMAS MOORE thou art thought tree voice wave weary weep wild WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT WILLIAM WORDSWORTH wind wings
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Page 684 - ed to music all their fountains, And breathed upon the frozen mountains, And like a prophetess of May Strewed flowers upon the barren way, Making the wintry world appear Like one on whom thou smilest, dear. Away, away, from men and towns, To the wild wood
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Page 536 - я fair. Give me but what this ribbon bound," perfumes his wings ; While the waters murmur deep ; While the shepherd charms his sheep ; While the birds unbounded fly, •из POEMS OF NATURE. And with music fill the sky, Now, even now, my joys run high. Be full, ye courts ; be great who will ; Search for
Page 297 - hymn ! in swarming cities vast, Assembled men to the deep organ join T
Page 446 - And often after sunset, sir, When it U light and fair, I take my little porringer, And eat my gnpper there. " The first that died was Sister Jane ; In bed she moaning lay. Till God released her of her pain ; And the» she went away.
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